On October 18, local time, the spokesperson of the Iraqi security forces, Yahya Rasul, announced through social media that the leader of the extremist group Gazwan Zobaiyi had been captured.
He is one of the highest-ranking terrorists wanted in Iraq and has organized and participated in a large number of terrorist attacks.
On July 3, 2016, in the Karadag area of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, a truck full of explosives was detonated by a suicide attacker, killing 250 people. On September 9, 2016, the Nashir shopping mall in the outskirts of Baghdad was hit. In the two suicide bombing attacks, two terrorists detonated vehicles in the parking lot and nearby streets, respectively, causing 40 deaths and 60 injuries; on May 30, 2017, car bombs occurred in the Karadag area of Baghdad and the Martyrs Bridge. The attack caused at least 27 deaths; on May 2, 2016, when a mass rally was held in southern Baghdad, a car approached the crowd to detonate explosives, causing 24 deaths and 38 injuries.
After investigation by the Iraqi intelligence services, the above-mentioned cases are directly related to Zobay.
(Headquarters reporter Fu Xinri)