Informed local sources said that ISIS has arrested six of its own security members of the al-Hisba department in the city of Mosul in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province.

“The ISIS leadership suspected that the al-Hisba members were leaking confidential information to the western coalition–whose airstrikes have recently killed top ISIS officials. After interrogation, the Mosul Sharia Court issued a decision to publicly execute the six suspects,” media activist Abdullah al-Malla said in Mosul, citing an ISIS official.

“The six terrorists were beheaded in front of dozens of ISIS officials in central Mosul,” al-Malla reported.

This comes just three days after the US-led coalition renewed its airstrikes on headquarters of the ISIS in northwestern Iraq, killing and wounding dozens of militants, including top ISIS leaders.

Muhammad Ahmed al-Bajjari, head of ISIS military operations in northwestern Iraq, was killed in an airstrike in Mosul city of Nineveh province. “Al-Bajjari was killed along with several other ISIS fighters. He had played a main role in planning ISIS military operations against the Iraqi army in the vicinity of Mosul,” director of the Nineveh media centre Raafat al-Zarari said on Saturday.

Another coalition strike has reportedly killed the head of ISIS Police [al-Hisba] in Mosul, known as Hatim Taleb al-Hamdouni.

“More than 30 ISIS terrorists were killed in the past two days, including top ISIS officials like Hamdouni and al-Bajjari,” local media activist Farad Mirani said.

ISIS suspects that some of its own members have been leaking information to the coalition’s forces about confidential locations of the group’s leaders, ABNA reported.

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