ISIS arrests two members in Al-Anbar, four others killed in airstrikes
One of the border gates seized by ISIS in Nineveh Province. File photo.
(IraqiNews.com) Al-Anbar – The self-proclaimed Islamic State has arrested two of its senior members in Al-Anbar for facilitating the escape of its Iraqi members to the Syrian city of Raqqa.
An intelligence official at al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces in the town of Hadithah, Nazem al-Jugheifi, said ISIS sent a force from the Syrian city of Raqqa to Al-Anbar’s towns of Annah and Rawa to arrest two of its security officers: Mohamed Halim al-Ani, aka Abu Ossama, and Bilal Ziyad, aka Abu Yazid.
“The reason behind the two leaders’ arrest was that they had issued licenses for Iraqi fighters escaping Annah and Rawa to Syria,” Jugheifi said.
ISIS reportedly closed Iraqi borders with Syria a few days ago to prevent members escaping battles, and had also executed a number of militants for slackness at the battleground.
Also In Anbar, four ISIS militants were killed in an Iraqi airstrike that targeted their haven west of Anbar, according to Qatari al-Ebeidi, another leader at al-Hashed al-Shaabi in Al-Anbar.
The airstrike, which was carried out upon an intelligence tip, destroyed a vehicle with the fighters on board, according to Ebeidi.