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Iraq

Kurdistan’s Asayish arrest seven ISIS suspects wanted by Baghdad

2026-08-19

[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Region's security agency (Asayish) on Tuesday announced the arrest of seven Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) members wanted by Baghdad under the federal anti-terrorism law.

The suspects were described as "active members" of ISIS who "were hiding in [the Region’s eastern] Sulaimani province and its surrounding areas," the Asayish said in a statement, citing "precise intelligence" for the arrests.

The detainees were handed over to federal authorities on Tuesday, "based on territorial jurisdiction to complete investigative procedures," the statement added.

ISIS suspects are charged under Article 4 of Iraq's anti-terrorism law, which covers punishments for committing, supporting, or concealing acts of terrorism.

The first clause of the Article imposes a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
on any "principal actor or an accomplice" who "instigates, plans, finances, or enables" terrorist acts, while the second prescribes life imprisonment for anyone who "intentionally conceals any terrorist act or harbors a terrorist individual with the intent of shielding them."

In late July, Sulaimani's Asayish arrested four ISIS suspects in two separate operations.

Security forces in the province had also arrested three suspects in June and nine in May.

Moreover, the Sulaimani Asayish said it carried out 298 anti-terror operations in 2025, resulting in 716 arrests.

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