A May 10 report by Reuters described how, according to Iraqi security advisor Hisham Al-Hashimi, Turkish, Iraqi, and U.S. security forces recently captured five Islamic State (ISIS) leaders. In February 2018, Turkish authorities captured Ismail Al-Eithawi aka Abu Zaid Al-Iraqi while he was in Turkey. Al-Eithawi was an aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi responsible for funds transfers to the group's bank accounts in different countries.
Iraqi agents, in cooperation with U.S. forces, then used the Telegram messaging app on Al-Eithawi's mobile phone to lure other Islamic State commanders to cross the border from Syria into Iraq, where they were captured, Hashimi said. Those held include Saddam Jamal, a Syrian who served as ISIS's governor of Syria's eastern Euphrates region, and three field commanders: Mohamed Al-Qadeer, Omar Al-Karbouli, and Essam Al-Zawbai. Hashimi described Al-Eithawi and Jamal as the two most senior Islamic State figures ever to be captured alive.
Source: Reuters.com, May 10, 2018.
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