ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism directorate have arrested eight suspected ISIS members, the unit announced late on Thursday. The arrests were made on Wednesday.

"Based on information and after close monitoring, two members of a Daesh terrorist group – Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed Jadi' and Qa'ttan Ali Ahmed Jadi' – were arrested on January 16, 2019 in Erbil during a successful operation,” the directorate announced on their Facebook page.

The two - their relation to each other was not confirmed - were arrested under a court-issued warrant. They had worked for ISIS in the group’s security unit, the directorate stated.

Six other suspects, not identified, were picked up in the same operation.

ISIS was declared defeated in Iraq in December 2017, but sleeper cells and small units of the militants remain a security threat throughout the country.

Sulaimani security forces announced the arrest of a known and “dangerous” ISIS militant on Wednesday.

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