Bizarre sick notes reveal the feeble excuses ISIS soldiers use to get out of fighting on the frontline
Militants looking for a way out are claiming they 'can't turn up to fight today' because they have headaches, bad backs and even sore feet
ISIS militants are using bizarre sick notes in a desperate bid to escape fighting on the frontline, documents reveal.
Some jihadis looking for a way out are claiming they "can't turn up to fight today" because they have a headache. Others moan about bad backs, poor tummies and even sore feet.
The feeble excuses were discovered after the on-the-run terror group was flushed out of vast swathes of Iraq, reports .
Coalition forces found documents that belong to the Tarek ibn Ziad battalion that operates in the war-torn country.
They show Arab and European terrorists in the Middle East are pleading to be discharged from duty so they can return to their home countries with the most pathetic of injury claims.
Excuses include headaches, knee spasms, backaches and heel soreness.
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Tarek ibn Ziad is understood to be a terror cell made up of mainly European fighters tasked with carrying out attacks in the Middle East.
It was reportedly formed by a terrorist named Moroccan Abdelilah Himich, who goes by the name of Abu Suleyman al-Fransi.
He is understood to have played a part in the November 2015 Paris attacks.
Iraqi joint forces and allied militias are currently awaiting orders from the government in Baghdad to begin an offensive against ISIS strongholds in western Mosul.
Operations backed by a US-led international military coalition have managed to retake the whole of the city’s eastern regions since October.
More than 3,300 militants are reported dead according to military officials since the beginning of operations.
The extremist group has lost several senior leaders during the battles, and it has reportedly executed several fighters and demoted others over delinquency in the battlefield.