The ISIS group has arrested several of its senior leaders in Iraq for “treason” on the orders of the terror group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a media report.
The ISIS group has arrested several of its senior leaders in Iraq for “treason” on the orders of the terror group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a media report.
A terrorist dubbed “the masked gunman” arrested dozens of prominent ISIS leaders for committing treason, Iraqi News reported citing media officials of the Iraqi ministry of defence. The officials were quoted as saying, “A terrorist called ‘the masked gunman’ arrested dozens of ISIS senior leaders by orders of the criminal al-Baghdadi on charges of treason.”
“The arrest operations led to noticeable collapse in the ISIS ranks,” the officials were quoted as saying by a statement. The ISIS is known for brutally punishing fighters and leaders who go against the terror group’s top brass or try to flee the war zone.
Meanwhile, Kurdish authorities said on Friday they were investigating another suspected chemical attack by ISIS militants against peshmerga fighters in northwestern Iraq this week. Dozens of peshmerga and civilians were treated for nausea and vomiting after homemade rockets, that appe-ared to have contained a chemical substance, were fired at them in the Sinjar area on February 25, the Kurdistan Region Secu-rity Council said on its official Twitter account.
Earlier on Friday, Jabbar Yawar, the secretary general of the peshmerga ministry, told Reuters the substance was probably chlorine, a choking agent whose use as a chemical weapon dates back to World War One. It is banned under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
The Kurds have previously said they have evidence that ISIS has used chlorine against the peshmerga on a number of occasions, as well as mustard gas. “If confirmed this will be eighth ISIS weaponised chemical attack against Peshmerga. ISIS tactics continue to become more sophisticated,” the security council said.
