(MENAFN) More than twenty Daesh (ISIS/IS) members have been arrested in several operations in Nineveh province, while weapons and explosives were seized in their possession, security sources said on Saturday.
Cap. Amir Watheq, from Nineveh police, said, "security troops arrested eight self-declared Islamic State members, possessing hand grenades in Makhmur, southeast of Mosul."
"Troops cordoned off the area, where the militants were hiding and invaded their houses, then took them to Nineveh Operations Command headquarters for investigations."
All hand grenades, in their possession, were confiscated.
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