As well as this crime, al-Jamal has been accused of being party to several other atrocities including links to a massacre in 2014 where more then 700 members of a tribe which rose up against ISIS in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor were killed.

He is also reported to have executed children, sometimes in front of their own parents, with officials from Iraq claiming he once murdered an entire family after the parents said he couldn’t marry their daughter.

Before taking on a more senior role with ISIS, al-Jamal had been a commander in the Free Syrian Army before taking leadership of a western-allied Islamist group known as Ahfab al-Rasoul.

Iraqi security forces lured the four ISIS leaders from Syria to Iraq with false Telegram messages which were sent using the mobile phone of ISIS lieutenant Ismail al-Eithawi who was already captured.

al-Eithawi was captured in February this year by Turkish intelligence who then handed him over to the Iraqis.

Sending instructions via the Telegram app, the four leaders arrived in Iraq where they were then seized.

As well as al-Eithawi and al-Jamal, the successful operation captured three other senior ISIS field commanders – Syrian Mohamed al-Qadeer and two Iraqis, Omar al-Karbouli and Essam al-Zawbai.

The Telegram app has been utilised by ISIS since 2015 with the group naming it as one of their most favoured mobile messaging services.

The free app lets people exchange messages, photos and videos in groups of up to 5,000 people meaning as well as regularly using it for private communications, ISIS also use Telegram to spread propaganda.

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