Turkish authorities detained the wife of Abu Omar al-Shishani, a senior Daesh (ISIS) commander killed in combat two years ago, in a counterterrorism operation in Istanbul this month, police said late Thursday. Dubbed Daesh’s war minister and a close adviser to the militant group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Georgian Shishani was killed in action in the Iraqi district of Shirqat, south of Mosul, in July 2016. His wife was one five people detained in simultaneous raids across Istanbul on the night of July 4 that targeted people believed to have connections with conflict zones and actively seeking to carry out attacks, police said in a statement.
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