More than 20 persons with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS were captured in separate operations of the National Security Agency in Nineveh, al-Anbar, Diyala, and Kirkuk.
The Security Media Cell (SMC) said that a force from the National Security Agency executed an arrest warrant against six persons who served in al-Jazeera sector under the auspices of ISIS.
In al-Anbar, the National Security Agency dismantled a network of five terrorists operating as a security cell for the extremist group.
A group of four persons with ties to the terrorist group was captured in Diyala. The arrestees confessed to providing logistic support to ISIS cells sheltered in the Hemrin mountains.
In another security operation, the National Security Agency caught six members, including a commander, in the so-called Diwan al-Jund (the personnel affairs department) of the terrorist group in Kirkuk.
Iraqi security forces on Sunday announced the killing of several alleged Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) members, including two jacket wallahs in Salahaddin province. Other suspects of the terror group were also arrested across several Iraqi provinces.
Iraqi Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s targeted ISIS positions north of Lake Tharthar, killing three alleged ISIS members, Iraqi Security Media Cell said.
The corpse count of ISIS bandidos snuffies climbed to five after the Iraqi forces clashed with two bandidos snuffies wearing explosive vests in the same area, leading to the killing of both ISIS suspects, it added.
"The force found a very large tunnel containing large numbers of bombs ... in addition to finding a house used by ISIS terrorist gangs to hide the bombs," said the cell. A vehicle containing bombs and weapons was also discovered on the scene.
The security forces also announced the arrest of several suspected ISIS members, including a leader of the terror group, in four Iraqi provinces.
Six bandidos snuffies were arrested in Kirkuk province "including an ISIS terrorist leader who entered the province with a fake identity, and he is one of those responsible for blowing up oil pipelines," according to the cell.
Additionally, more than a dozen ISIS affiliates were detained in the provinces of Nineveh, Anbar, and Diyala.
Iraqi warplanes on Monday killed seven ISIS suspects after an airstrike hit their location in the Makhmour mountains in Erbil.
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in festivities with the terror group in Salahaddin on Tuesday.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 12 attacks in Iraq from May 11 to May 19, killing and injuring 26 people. 
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