Iraqi intelligence captures IS leader Abdul-Nasser

Baghdad: The Iraqi

National Intelligence

Service (INIS) on

Wednesday announced that it has arrested a leader of the Islamic

State (IS).

“The terrorist named

Abdul-Nasser Qardash, a former candidate to succeed the (dead IS leader) Abu Bakr alBaghdadi, has been arrested,” INIS said in a statement on its official Twitter account. The statement gave no further details about the location of the arrest or whether there were others captured with him.

Qardash is one of the most important leaders of IS, but the group later chose AbdulRahman al-Mawla to succeed al-Baghdadi.