Iraq announced on Monday the arrest of an alleged Islamic State group leader in Kirkuk governorate in the country’s north. Major General Yahya Rasool, spokesperson for the Iraqi armed forces’ commander-in-chief, said a “terrorist leader nicknamed Abu Hamza Al-Mutawaiti” had been arrested by counter-terror forces, The New Arab’s Arabic sister service, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reported. Security forces also announced the launch of an operation from around Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city recaptured from IS in 2017. Iraqi army and members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) militia umbrella are …