Iraqi General: Palestinian-American Member of ISIS Surrenders

A Palestinian-American member of the Islamic State (ISIS) gave himself up to Iraqi Kurdish forces in the country’s north on Monday, an Iraqi Kurdish general said, a rare instance of a voluntary surrender of a militant fighting with the extremist group in Iraq.
Iraqi General: Palestinian-American Member of ISIS Surrenders
The Associated Press
3/14/2016
Updated:
3/15/2016

Local officials in the town of Taza in Iraq’s north say a recent attack injured more than 600 people. The attacks follow a string of advances by Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, including in the western city of Ramadi, which was declared fully “liberated” by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition officials last month.

ISIS still controls large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria and has declared an Islamic “caliphate” on the territory it holds. The extremist group also controls Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, as well as the city of Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad.