Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have captured a high-ranking member of the ISIS terrorist group who oversaw its finances and served as an ISIS deputy leader under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi officials announced. “While our ISF heroes focused on securing the elections, their INIS [Iraqi National Intelligence Services] colleagues were conducting a complex external operation to capture Sami Jasim, who was in charge of Daesh finance, and a deputy of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi,” Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said in a statement on Monday, one day after the country held a parliamentary election. Daesh is another name for ISIS. A U.S.-led military operation under President Donald Trump in northwestern Syria in 2019 killed Al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi national and leader of ISIS since 2010. He was also active in the insurgency against American troops following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, which killed …