The capture of the “Baghdad Tiger” in a lightning operation
25 فبراير 2021
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah, 35 kilometres (20 miles) north of Baghdad on February 20, 2021, following clashes with Islamic State group fighters. - Iraqi security forces clashed with the Islamic State group north of Baghdad, leaving at least five jihadists and two security personnel dead. A joint force of army troops and state-sponsored tribal fighters raided an IS hideout in the leafy plains of Tarmiyah, according to a statement from the military. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah, 35 kilometres (20 miles) north of Baghdad on February 20, 2021, following clashes with Islamic State group fighters. – Iraqi security forces clashed with the Islamic State group north of Baghdad, leaving at least five jihadists and two security personnel dead. A joint force of army troops and state-sponsored tribal fighters raided an IS hideout in the leafy plains of Tarmiyah, according to a statement from the military. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
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Iraqi Intelligence arrested “Nimr Baghdad”, one of the leaders of “ISIS” organization, in an operation it described as a “lightning” west of the capital. Baghdad resulted in
Iraqi intelligence arrested “Nimr Baghdad”, one of the leaders of “ISIS” organization, in an operation it described as a “lightning” west of the capital.
According to the Iraqi News Agency, quoting the intelligence service’s statement, today, Thursday, a lightning intelligence operation in the Abu Ghraib area, west of the capital, Baghdad, resulted in the arrest of Nimr Sweid, known as the “Baghdad Tiger.”
The statement added that “the tiger of Baghdad” is the son of the leader of the “ISIS” organization, Ahmed Abdullah Sweid, and he was in charge of the booby-trapping detachments in the so-called southern state in the organization.
In late January, Iraqi security forces killed Abu Yasir al-Issawi, a leader in ISIS who called himself “the deputy caliph” and the governor of Iraq.
