Saladin court issues death sentence to ISIS militant, major counter-terrorism gains in December

Shafaq News/ An ISIS member was sentenced to death in Saladin Province, the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council announced on Thursday.

In a statement, the council's media center revealed that "the terrorist was sentenced for kidnapping and killing a citizen in the district of Tikrit in 2014 with terrorist motives."

The judgment was issued under Anti-Terrorism Law No. 13 of 2005.

Notably, since the beginning of 2024, Iraqi forces have intensified counter-terrorism operations in multiple provinces, including Saladin, Kirkuk, Diyala, and Al-Anbar.

In December, as part of the counter-terrorism operations, Iraqi security forces arrested nine additional ISIS members in Kirkuk and Wasit and killed a militant in an ambush in the Hamrin mountain range.

They also seized weapons, and military equipment, including rocket launchers and improvised explosive devices, from caves in the Al-Anbar desert.