Iraq’s Military Intelligence arrests most prominent ISIS member in Mosul

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during a patrol looking for militants, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), explosives and weapons in a neighbourhood in Ramadi , June 11, 2014. Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, June 21, 2014, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago with the aim of creating an Islamic Caliphate stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The militants, led by the ISIL, first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Picture taken June 11, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT MILITARY)

Iraq’s Military Intelligence announced on Tuesday that the most prominent ISIS member on the left coast of Mosul city was arrested.

A military intelligence statement said; “a terrorist woman, who was arrested earlier, confessed to the authorities that her son, nicknamed “Muzahem” is working with the terrorist organization in the Qadisiya area, Mosul.”

The statement added that the detachments of the Military Intelligence Division, in cooperation with a force from the 3rd Regiment and the 73rd Infantry Brigade arrested him in a tight ambush.

Meanwhile, a security source said today that three Iraqi soldiers were killed in an explosion southwest of Diyala.

An explosive device blew up next to a military vehicle near the village of Muradia al-Zahawi, 17 km southwest of Baqubah, the source added.

“The security forces launched a search campaign looking for the perpetrators,” he added.

In another scene, the Security Media Cell announced that three civilians of one family died when an explosive device of a war mine blew up in the Al-Shukrah area of Samawa Governorate, southern Iraq.

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