ISIS suicide bomber ‘blew up 12 fellow fanatics when his belt accidentally exploded during goodbye party thrown by terror pals’
The bomb went off at the terrorist's 'blood party' in the Iraqi city of Baqubah
AN ISIS suicide bomber killed himself and 12 other terrorists when his explosive belt accidentally went off at his goodbye party, a top cop said.
Police chief Jassem al-Saadi said 12 Islamic State terrorists northeast of the city of Baqubah were bidding farewell to a moronic militant who was about to launch a suicide attack.
ISIS jihadis often hold a sickening "blood party" for those who are about to launch a suicide bomb attack.
The terror group has launched a series of desperate attacks as it loses ground in Iraq.
Iraqi forces today pushed towards the river side of Mosul's Old City, their key target in the eight-month campaign to capture Islamic State's de-facto capital.
The Iraqi military, battling up to 350 militants dug in among civilians in the Old City, said federal police had dislodged ISIS insurgents from the Ziwani mosque and were only a few days away from ousting militants completely from the Old City.
"The victory announcement will come in a very short time," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on his website last night.
"The operation is continuing to free the remaining parts of the Old City," Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi of the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) told a Reuters correspondent near the frontline in the heart of the Old City.
The fall of Mosul would mark the end of the Iraqi half of the "caliphate" proclaimed by Islamic State though the militant group remains in control of large areas of both Iraq and Syria.
In Syria, the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa is nearly encircled by a US-backed, Kurdish-led coalition.
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