Turkish intelligence helped Iraq capture high-ranking Daesh leader Sami Jasim in northwestern Syria where Ankara holds major sway, Reuters news agency reports
Daesh's cross-border"caliphate" once spanned a third of Syria and Iraq, inspiring affiliates including one in Afghanistan.
He was a deputy to group's founder Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, killed during a US raid in 2019 in Syria's northwest, and a close aide to its current leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashemi al Quraishi, the Iraqi government said. The senior regional security source said Jasim was in northwestern Syria when he was caught with help from local security forces – an apparent reference to Syrian opposition forces. One of the Iraqi sources said Iraqi intelligence agents had been tracking Jasim for months. Information from a Daesh prisoner detained last year had contributed to his capture, the second Iraqi security source said.
His capture could yield significant intelligence about the remnants of Daesh which was driven from its cross-border so-called "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq years ago but still carries out attacks in both countries.Jasim had been flown to Iraq from Turkey in a military plane, the two Iraqi security sources and an Iraqi military source close to the Iraqi military aviation service said.
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