ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Turkish and Syrian intelligence services arrested 10 suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members in a joint operation in Syria on Saturday, including a suspect allegedly linked to the 2015 Ankara train station bombing, according to Turkish state media.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported that the suspects “were wanted under Interpol red notices and were detained during coordinated operations carried out by Turkish and Syrian intelligence units,” including members of Ankara's National Intelligence Organization (MIT).

One of the detainees was allegedly involved in the Ankara train station bombing, one of the deadliest attacks in modern Turkish history.

The October 2015 suicide attack targeted a peace rally outside Ankara’s main railway station, killing more than 100 people and wounding almost 500.

The report did not specify where in Syria the operation took place or provide details about the identities of the suspects.

Turkey maintains intimate relations with the Damascus administration across multiple domains, with Ankara having backed current President Ahmed al-Sharaa's rebel campaign that ousted Bashar al-Assad in late 2024.

Despite having been territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, ISIS remains a threat in the country, engaging in targeted killings of government officials and figures deemed religiously deviant, with the extremist group in early May claiming responsibility for the assassination of the Shiite imam Farhan Hassan al-Mansour in a car bombing in the Damascus countryside.

During the turmoil embued by a Syrian military offensive into Rojava (northeast Syria) in early 2026, Iraq agreed to take in thousands of ISIS prisoners from its neighbor to prevent possible escapes and a resurgence of the group.