BOSASO (Halbeeg News) – Six foreign ISIS members have surrendered to authorities in the autonomous regional state of Somalia.
In a statement, police said the foreigners were among twelve Daesh militants surrendered to Puntland security forces in the mountains of the Bari region. Three of foreigners came from Sudan while the remaining three hail from Ethiopia.
Major General Abdiqadir Jama Dirir, the commander of the Bari regional police department confirmed that the men surrendered themselves in different areas.
One of these men identified as Muhanad Abdullahi Abdirahim said he was from Sudan in a video was broadcast by Puntland government television.
Abdirahim said that the administration of Ballidhidhin district welcomed him well and gave him food and clothes for the festival.
ISIS was formed in 2015 by former fighters of al-Shabaab, who deserted the group following disagreement with the top leaders of Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate group, which mainly operates in south and central Somalia.
The group leader and founder Abdulkadir Mumin, also a former Al-Shabaab cleric pledged his allegiance to the then IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2015.
In 2016, the U.S. State Department designated Mumin, a former preacher based in the UK as a global terrorist.
The group has its headquarters in Galgala mountains in Bari region but has made headways into southern Somalia.
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