Missile wipes out ISIS suicide truck outside Mosul in heart-stopping race to destroy vehicle before it reaches Kurdish forces with its deadly payload
French air force obliterates the truck out the outskirts of the besieged Iraqi city
THE horrifying reality of Iraq's fight to liberate Mosul is displayed in this heart-stopping video of an ISIS suicide truck being obliterated.
A jihadi vehicle tears across an arid strip of land towards anti-ISIS forces before being blown to smithereens.
Panicked Kurdish Peshmerga troops had just seconds earlier been heard trying to take out the oncoming car.
But French forces come to the rescue when one of its planes launches a rocket into the vehicle, prompting a devastating explosion just a few hundred yards from its target.
ISIS have been using explosive-laden cars to punch holes through the defensive lines of Iraqi and Kurdish forces who are enveloping Mosul.
Each time, defending forces are faced with a do-or-die task of taking out the car before it reaches them with its deadly payload.
But despite the suicidal counter-attacks, the US-supported forces are slowly strangling Iraq's third city - home to an estimated 1.5million.
Up to 30,000 soldiers are currently battling to finally push ISIS out of Mosul.
Its liberation will effectively end the terror group's influence in Iraq, restricting it to neighbour Syria and the de facto capital in Raqqa.
The Sun reported yesterday how ISIS has accepted it faces oblivion and is now telling foreign fighters to carry out lone wolf attacks at home rather than travel to the Middle East.
The group is increasingly turning to terrorising citizens in Mosul using barbaric public executions.
Up to 40 people were executed last week for "treason and collaboration" with outside forces.
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