Publish Date: 12 August 2020 - 10:41

TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (MNA) – The Iraqi Intelligence Service has arrested a terrorist gang affiliated with the ISIL takfiri terrorist group.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Iraqi Intelligence Service announced that its forces has identified and dismantled a terrorist gang and arrested all its members in Nineveh province.

"In a unique operation based on accurate intelligence data, Nineveh intelligence forces, backed by army intelligence and reconnaissance forces, have managed to identify and dismantle a terrorist gang, consisted of eight members," the statement read.

"The gang members were all wanted by Iraqi Judiciary," it added.

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