AhlulBayt News Agency - Subsequent to a strategic security operation in the western city of Ramadi, Iraqi police forces were able to arrest three insurgent leaders from the radical group of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), Iraqi police command announced in an official statement on Friday.
The arrestees were identified as Abu Musa al-Assafi, the ISIS official in charge of allegiance affairs, Abdul Wahab Namrawi, a booby-trapping official in the district of Hit, and Abu Muthana Hayani, an official of the so-called Divan of Muslims’ affairs in the state of Anbar, according to the police leadership.
This comes as ISIS suffers a remarkable decline in its manpower and equipment inside Falluja, the largest city in the Anbar province, western Iraq, especially after the intensified military operations waged by Iraqi joint forces and the US-led coalition forces over the last few weeks.
In the meantime, ISIS began cracking down on the people of Fallujah through the closure of the old and new bridges of the city, and prevented them from passing in order to flee the war-torn region, according to local sources.
A number of key districts south of Kirkuk province, in northern Iraq, including az-Zab, Abbasi, Riyadh, al-Rashad and Hawija are still under the control of the hardline group, using them as centers for launching their attacks on Kurdish forces and Iraqi army in the region.
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