IS leader, planned for operations against security troops, arrested in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State leader has been arrested in an ambush set up in west of Anbar province, the Iraqi Security Media Center said on Sunday.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, the spokesperson for the center, said military intelligence managed to trap a dangerous Islamic State leader after setting up an ambush. He was arrested in al-Tarabsha region in Ramadi.
The militant, according to Rasool, “is one of the militants who planned and carried out several terrorist operations that targeted security troops and civilians.”
Iraqi army officer, two soldiers killed in bomb blast in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi officer, two soldiers were killed as a bomb targeted their convoy in Anbar province, a security source said on Sunday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, “a bomb targeted an army patrol in al-Nakheeb region in Anbar, leaving a colonel and two soldiers, accompanying him, killed.”