The arrest of Abdullah Qardash, one of the senior leaders of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) and a possible successor to ex-leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi, will help find the group's funding resources and details on its further plans, Sabah al-Nouman, a spokesman to the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), told Sputnik on Friday

An Iraqi legal team comprising some 700 experts is confident it will win its lawsuit against the US embassy, which is accused of illegally seizing 40 acres of strategic land in central Baghdad on which the diplomatic mission is located, Mustafa Hafez, one of the lawyers, told Sputnik on Friday

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (banned in Russia) conducted several raids in Iraq and Syria, arresting a the terror group's media official in Mosul and three supporters, Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a statement on Thursday