Desperate ISIS leader al-Baghdadi calls in elite battalion of masked jihadi thugs to help protect Mosul
ISIS leader al-Baghdadi has called on a battalion of elite jihadis to help defend Mosul as Kurdish, Iraqi, and Turkish troops continue to sweep aside his army of fanatics.
Highly-skilled fighters in the so-called "al-Sham battalion" have been called back from al-Raqqa in Syria to boost the falling morale of Mosul's beleaguered jihadis.
Al-sham fighters are said have Iraqi accents.
News of their arrival in the city under attack has come after it emerged ISIS war chiefs also called in reinforcements from Raqqa in Syria.
The terror group is losing its grip on Mosul after Iraqi forces launched their biggest ever ground offensive in the country since the US-led invasion of 2003.
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