Wife of killed Daesh leader in Iraq custody

WASHINGTON: The wife of a Daesh leader who was captured earlier this year in a military operation that left her husband dead, has been transferred to Iraqi custody after being detained for months by the US
Umm Sayyaf, wife of the Daesh’s head of oil operations Abu Sayyaf, was in US custody since May 15. There have been suggestions that she and her husband were the captors of American hostage Kayla Mueller, who was believed held in Syria. Mueller was killed while being held prisoner. Daesh militants have claimed she died in a Jordanian airstrike, but US and other officials have cast doubt on that assertion.
Mueller, who was from Prescott, Arizona, and her Syrian boyfriend were taken hostage in August 2013 after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria. The boyfriend was later released.
US officials have said Umm Sayyaf, an Iraqi, was cooperative while being detained by the US in Irbil. They said she provided a “trove” of intelligence about Daesh operations. She was transferred to the custody of Kurdish officials in Iraq.
Abu Sayyaf was killed during a US Army Delta Force raid on a compound in Syria. He was the head of oil operations for the Daesh.