TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi security and popular forces have caught an Israeli colonel from Golani Brigade along with a number of ISIS terrorists, a commander disclosed on Thursday.

“The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel,” a commander of Iraq’s popular mobilization forces said on Thursday. “The [Israeli] zionist officer is ranked colonel and had participated in the Takfiri ISIS group’s terrorist operations,” he added.

Noting that he was arrested along with a number of ISIS terrorists, the commander said,

“The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade of the [Israeli] zionist regime’s army with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434.”

He said that the relevant bodies are now interrogating the Israeli colonel to understand the reasons behind his fighting alongside the ISIS forces and the presence of other [Israeli] zionist officers among ISIS terrorists.

The Iraqi security forces said the captured colonel has already made shocking confessions.

Several ISIS militants arrested in the last one year had already confessed that Israeli agents from Mossad and other Israeli espionage and intelligence bodies were present in the first wave of ISIS attacks on Iraq and capture of Mosul in Summer 2014, but no ranking Israeli agent had been arrested.

Political and military experts told FNA that the capture of the Israeli colonel will leave a grave impact on Iraq’s war strategy, including partnership with Israeli allies.

In a relevant development in July, Iraqi volunteer forces announced that they had shot down a drone that was spying on the Arab country’s security forces in the city of Fallujah, Western Iraq.

Iraq’s popular forces reported that they had brought down a hostile surveillance aircraft over the Southeastern Fallujah in Anbar Province. They said that the wreckage of ISIS’s spy drone carried ‘Israel-Made’ labels. This was not the first Israeli-made drone downed in Iraq. In August an Israeli Hermes drone was shot down in the vicinity of Baghdad Airport.

FARS News Agency

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