...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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(ISIS) official who held the position of a "Sharia judge," in cooperation with the counterterrorism forces in Sulaimani province.
Akkab Hamad Nijris Dali, nicknamed Abu Jamal, held the position of ISIS’ Sharia judge in the so-called Tigris state and had "issued multiple fatwa inciting the targeting of security forces and those who cooperated with them," according to a statement from the Iraqi intelligence.
A Sharia judge is a judge who issues rulings based on Islamic law.
The statement added that Dali had fled to Syria in 2017 following the holy warrior group’s defeat in Iraq, but had returned in 2023 based on the group’s orders. The suspect was tracked in multiple countries before being arrested based on "accurate intelligence."
The location of the arrest was not revealed, but the statement mentioned that the operation was carried out in coordination with the counterterrorism services in Sulaimani.
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that at least 13 ISIS operatives were killed and an additional 21 detained in partnered operations with their allies in Iraq and Syria during the month of June.