The US-led coalition says Iraqi forces in coordination with US-backed Syrian forces have captured five senior ISIS group leaders.
In a statement on Thursday coalition spokesman Army Col Ryan Dillon called the arrest a “significant blow to Daesh.”
ISIS fighters no longer control significant pockets of territory inside Iraq, but do maintain a grip inside Syria along Iraq’s border. The US-led coalition supported Iraqi ground forces and Syrian fighters known as the Syrian Democratic Forces in the more than three- year war against IS.
US President Donald Trump tweeted about
the raid, saying those arrested were the “five most wanted” ISIS “leaders.”