International Desk, Delhi – Magazine: Iraqi security forces seized the “finance minister” of the ISIS, Sami Jasim, a key deputy to former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was given a $ 5 million bounty on his head.
As Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Qadimi said on Monday, Iraqi Jasim was detained during a “complex external operation” by the country’s special services.
In Iraq, ISIS continues to carry out regular attacks on the police, army and government militias, killing dozens of police and security forces over the past year.
Baghdadi, who declared himself the leader of a cross-border “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq in 2014, was killed in 2019 during a US special forces operation in northwest Syria.