Harrowing picture captures father’s overwhelming anguish after daughter is killed in ISIS mortar attack
The devastating picture was captured in Mosul, where a bloody battle with the terror group rages
A GRIEVING father clutches his dead toddler to his chest with his face twisted in a scream of unimaginable horror in this heartbreaking picture.
Iraqi Omar Al holds his dead daughter Amira, who was just 15 months when she was killed by an ISIS mortar shell at al-Tahrir in Mosul.
Another harrowing image shows his injured brother carrying his dead niece to an Iraqi special forces medical unit.
They are the latest victims in a war that has so far claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocents.
Forces battling the ISIS in northern Iraq cut off the jihadists' last supply line from Mosul to Syria today, trapping the murderous jihadists in the city for a bloody last stand.
A day after the last major bridge over the Tigris in Mosul was bombed by the US-led coalition against ISIS, elite forces fighting in the east of the city also reported significant progress.
To the west of Mosul, Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces made a push to cut the road between two towns on the route heading to Syria, security officials said.
"Hashed forces have cut off the Tal Afar-Sinjar road," senior Hashed commander Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis said on social media.
A Kurdish security official told AFP that Hashed forces had linked up with other anti-IS forces, including Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters, in three villages in the area.
The town of Tal Afar itself, which lies about 30 miles west of Mosul, is still under the control of the jihadists.
Iraqi forces launched a major offensive on October 17 to retake Mosul, which is the country's second city and where jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate in 2014.