ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least seven members of the Islamic State (ISIS) were captured in the Kurdish-run town of Qaratapa in Iraq’s northern Diyala by Peshmerga security forces as they were “plotting” to carry out terror attacks.
“A person from Baquba who had joined ISIS through social media was captured by security forces in Qaratapa,” Mohammed Haji Omer, a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official, told Rudaw. “He gave information on five more militants who had plotted to carry out terror attacks, together with him in Qaratapa and the area.”
Omer added that one of the seven “was captured with five improvised booby traps at a village near Qaratapa by Iraqi intelligence.”
Qaratapa is a multiethnic town with a population of 43,000. Most of the administrative units in the town are run by Kurds.
