ISIS admits defeat as it tells fanatics to stay at home to become lone wolves with pressure cooker bombs rather than face annihilation in Mosul
Terror group is slowly being fought out of the Iraqi city of Mosul as forces prepare to take its capital of Raqqa in Syria
ISIS chiefs have accepted the group's oblivion is near and are telling would-be jihadis not to travel to Iraq and Syria.
Gritty street fighting continues in the besieged Iraqi city of Mosul, but ISIS terror cells are now being told to bring jihad to Europe through lone wolf attacks rather than travel to the Islamic State.
ISIS supporters use encrypted chat lines to plan attacks and spread a new propaganda messages as they lose their biggest city in the so-called “caliphate”.
Even Al Qaeda - often at loggerheads with ISIS - has called on its European terror cells to activate in lone wolf attacks.
The group’s propaganda magazine Inspire urged jihadis in Europe to blow up shopping centres with bombs made in their own kitchens.
“It was better to put the bomb in a place where people are gathering and standing around it, such as a shopping centre,” the publication instructs.
It goes on to provide a step-by-step guide to building a bomb using a household pressure cooker.
The last edition of ISIS Dabiq magazine called Break the Cross incited Muslims to carry out terror attacks in Europe and featured articles called “why we hate you”.
Rumiyah, another ISIS publication, describes the Bastille Day attacks on the French city of Nice as “superb” and analysis the best cars for driving explosives.
In busy secret chat channels, jihadis with monikers like “wolf alone” exchange messages of support and advice on how to raise the illegal funds needed to carry out the bloody attacks
The Syria/Turkish border is now locked down by Turkish forces and Kurdish YPG fighters making it impenetrable to those desperate to join ISIS in their last battle.
Right now, ISIS are squeezed with just one corridor out of Mosul as advancing Iraqi troops continue to take neighbourhoods despite facing an onslaught of Mad Max style ISIS suicide bombers.
Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers recently discovered one of the terror group's factories where vehicles are fitted with metal frames before being loaded with explosives and detonated killing Iraqi soldiers.
As the estimated 5,000 ISIS fighters in Mosul battle to the death, those who support them have been told the door to the Islamic State is closed.
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