Iraqi police arrest 9 Islamic State females, including “biters”
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi police said on Sunday they arrested nine Islamic State female members, including foreign nationals, at the group’s formerly proclaimed capital: Mosul.
Maj. Sallam al-Ekeidi from Nineveh police force, told state-owned daily Al Sabaah that the nine women were arrested in a village in Qayyara region, south of Mosul after intelligence information received from locals told they had snuck into three villages.
The women, who used to work for the extremist group’s Hisbah “vigilantism”, were taken to the Nineveh operations command for interrogation over crimes committed against the women of Mosul, according to the officer.
Ekeidi said those included three “biters“, two of whom are a Russian and a Syrian, who had caused the death of Mosulian women.
A biter was an infamous term given to women from IS who were assigned to punish local women violating the group’s extreme religious rules by biting them brutally at various parts of the body.
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Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops have arrested a prominent Islamic State (IS) warlord during a raid in Mosul city, a police chief was quoted as saying Sunday.
“The 5th emergency brigade of Nineveh police arrested Islamic State’s so-called emir in Nineveh province Ibrahim Mesha’al Hassan Marei during a security crackdown at al-Entesar district in Mosul’s eastern side,” chief of Nineveh police Brig. Gen. Hamad Names al-Jabouri told the Jordan-based Al Arab Al Yawm daily.
“Law enforcement forces acted on precise intelligence data as they made the arrest,” Jabouri noted, adding that Marei was handed over to the authorities concerned to interrogate him.
Iraqi security: Dangerous Islamic State leader killed in Mosul
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – A notorious Islamic State (IS) leader was killed Sunday by pro-government forces in the northern province of Nineveh, an Iraqi security source was quoted as saying.
“The 90th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) killed Ibrahim el-Yassin, a prominent IS leader, in an ambush in al-Safina village, south of Mosul,” the source, who preferred to be unnamed, told Sputnik.
The paramilitary forces acted on precise intelligence data as they managed to kill Yassin while buying some food, according to the source.
The source pointed out that Yassin was wanted on charged of killing Iraqi policemen in southern Mosul.
Iraqi intelligence services kill 3 Islamic State logistics officials in Mosul
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi intelligence services killed on Sunday three Islamic State (IS) terrorists in the group’s last bastion of Mosul, a military spokesman was quoted as saying.
Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool told Alghad Press that the 20th division of the Iraqi Military Intelligence targeted the three terrorists, who were carrying food supplies to a terrorist hotbed from Nimrud city to Qayyarah subdistrict in Mosul.
The 2nd rapid response team of Nineveh police also arrested three other terrorists, who are wanted on terror charges, in al-Qawsiyat village, north of Mosul.