ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkish police and intelligence have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.
ISRAEL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkish security forces had arrested a “senior executive” of the militant Daesh group. Erdogan said the commander was known as Abu Zeyd. His real name was Bashar Khattab Ghazal Al-Sumaidai, Erdogan told reporters on board his flight home from a three-nation tour of the Balkans.
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