ISIS’s finance official flees Anbar with fighters salaries

Qatari al-Obaidi, a senior leader at the Tribal Mobilization, told Alsumaria News that ISIL’s finance official, Sabbar Batoushi, fled the town of Annah, West of the city of Ramadi, carrying large amounts of the group’s funds.

Obaidi said the militants declared a curfew in the town in search for the fugitive leader.

Since Iraqi government forces launched a wide-scale campaign to retake ISIL-held regions in October 2016, the militant group has reportedly suffered financial constraints and many of it senior leaders have either died in combat or fled battlefields.

ISIL has held the towns of Annah, Rawa and Qaim since 2014, when it proclaimed an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. Recent news reports have said military reinforcements were sent to areas near those towns preparing for an invasion against ISIL.

The Iraqi Joint Operations Command has, meanwhile, declared that its coming battle would be in ISIL-held Hawija, Southwest of Kirkuk.

Source: Farsnews