Head of information services at the Committee of security and information to the UN Haytham Abu Saeed shared details.

According to him, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was arrested while attempting to cross the Syrian-Iraqi border. It is reported by “life”, reports “Russian conversation”.

The offensive people’s army on the militants captured the Mosul forced the leader of ISIS (banned in the Russian terrorist group – ed.) to escape. He was detained in the moment of crossing the border.

During the operation to liberate Mosul missile strike had killed Abu Hajir ar-Rus, who was one of leaders of terrorists. According to preliminary information, the gunman was a native of Russia.

As previously reported, “Russian conversation”, experts from the UN predict the besieged Mosul humanitarian catastrophe .