{"id":4595,"date":"2025-12-31T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/31\/iraq-arrests-senior-isis-leader-western-anbar\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:30:18","slug":"iraq-arrests-senior-isis-leader-western-anbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/31\/iraq-arrests-senior-isis-leader-western-anbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Security Forces Arrest Senior ISIS Leader in Western Anbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi security forces have announced the arrest of a prominent ISIS leader during a targeted operation in the western province of Anbar. According to a local security source, the detainee, known within ISIS as the &#8220;Ruler of the Western Desert,&#8221; was captured after precise identification and intelligence-led operations. The source added that the operation was planned and executed in the desert areas of Nineveh, resulting in the arrest of Hamoud Al-Dulaimi without major clashes. The source also stated that Al-Dulaimi was a key figure and wanted ISIS operative involved in multiple attacks against Iraqi security forces and civilians. He is considered one of the founding generation members of the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s security forces have arrested Hamoud Al-Dulaimi, a senior ISIS leader known as the &#8216;Ruler of the Western Desert&#8217;, in a targeted raid in western Anbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}