Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Security Council announces arrest of top aide of former Islamic State leader – Times of India
BAGHDAD: The Kurdish Regional Security Council announced in a statement on Friday that it captured a senior Islamic State figure, Socrates Khalil. Khalil was known to be a confidant of the late Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “After spending five years in Turkey, Khalil returned to Kurdistan with a forged passport and was swiftly…