Syrian Interior Ministry Announces Arrest of Senior ISIS Military Commander
ARK News.. The Syrian Interior Ministry announced the arrest of Hamza Abdullah Mohammed, known as “Abu Jihad al-Muhajir,” a senior military commander of ISIS, during a security operation in the countryside of Manbij in Aleppo province.
In a statement, the ministry said that the Internal Security Forces and the General Intelligence Service, in cooperation with international partners, arrested Hamza Abdullah Mohammed, known as “Abu Jihad al-Muhajir,” who is classified as one of ISIS’s prominent military commanders, during a carefully planned security operation in the Manbij countryside.
The ministry added that the detainee had served as the group’s “General Military Commander of the Wilayat al-Sham” and had previously served as deputy to the former general military commander, known as “al-Harithi.”
He had also previously been responsible for ISIS’s “Wilayat Idlib,” using the same alias, according to the ministry.
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