Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Security Council says top aide of former ISIS leader arrested

The Kurdish Regional Security Council announced in a statement on Friday that it captured a senior ISIS figure, Socrates Khalil.

Khalil was known to be a confidant of the late ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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“After spending five years in Turkey, Khalil returned to Kurdistan with a forged passport and was swiftly apprehended,” the statement said.

Khalil made bombs for the ISIS and was entrusted by al-Baghdadi with various major operations, the statement added, saying that he was instrumental in the 2014 ISIS takeover of Mosul, and participated in many battles against Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga forces.

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