The Iraqi Intelligence Service announced the arrest of Abdel Nasser Qardash, the candidate to succeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to lead the ISIS terrorist organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Iraqi Intelligence Service announced the arrest of Abdel Nasser Qardash, the candidate to succeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to lead the ISIS terrorist organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Iraqi state-owned media quoted the Intelligence apparatus as saying that \u201cToday, the terrorist called Abdel Nasser Qardash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, has been arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is noteworthy that Qardash was one of the candidates to succeed ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi, who was killed by American forces in a raid in the Syrian city of Idlib.<\/p>\n
The intelligence service did not reveal any additional details about the arrest of Qardash.<\/p>\n
The intelligence statement added that \u201cQardash held leadership positions in the organization since the days of Al-Zarqawi, and until he served as the head of the delegated committee in the days of al-Baghdadi, and led the battles of al-Baghuz,\u201d according to Iraqi sources.<\/p>\n
Qardash was head of security in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n
He is also called Abdel Nasser al-Iraqi and was the military leader of ISIS in the Levant state.<\/p>\n
He is listed as a Specially Designated Terrorist by the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Iraqi Intelligence Service announced the arrest of Abdel Nasser Qardash, the candidate to succeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to lead the ISIS terrorist organization.\u00a0 The Iraqi Intelligence Service announced the arrest of Abdel Nasser Qardash, the candidate to succeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to lead the ISIS terrorist organization.\u00a0 Iraqi state-owned media quoted the Intelligence apparatus …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1758,85,1759],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-abdel-nasser-qardash","tag-isis","tag-isis-leader"],"yoast_head":"\n