Islamic State figure arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi nationalist information officials connected Saturday said they arrested the top-ranking Islamic State fig successful Iraqi Kurdistan.

Azad Shakhi, the alleged emir of the Kurdistan faction of Islamic State, which is besides known arsenic IS, ISIS oregon ISIL, was detained successful Kirkuk state alongside six different suspected terrorists, 1 of whom blew himself up amid the siege connected their hideout.

"The detainees were moving underground and were recovered and arrested aft a thorough probe and gathering information," Colonel Salam Abdulkhaliq, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Security Agency, told VOA's Kurdish Service.

Regional information officials with cognition of the probe said the radical had been readying to people information figures and authorities institutions, according to determination quality outlets.

"The ISIS web that was arrested had links to the ISIS successful Karadag and different parts of the region, they person committed violent acts successful the past," a elder information root successful Kirkuk, who did not privation to beryllium named, told VOA.

The root besides said different members of the Kirkuk sleeper compartment had been detained successful caller days, and that "another radical of ISIS fighters were killed successful an aerial onslaught successful Rashad territory of occidental Kirkuk past night."

Officials said Shakhi, a nonmigratory of the Latif country of Shorjay colony successful Kirkuk, had antecedently been listed arsenic an progressive subordinate of ISIS.

This communicative originated successful VOA's Kurdish Service.