WATCH: ISIS suicide mission thwarted by Kurdish forces caught on video
A truck apparently used in ISIS suicide mission destroyed by Kurdish forces near Kirkuk.
By REUTERSKurds destroy ISIS truck
A truck apparently driven by an Islamic State fighter on a suicide mission on Sunday was blown up by Kurdish forces in dramatic video released on social media.Reuters cannot independently verify the content of this video, which was obtained from a social media website.The video shows the truck lumbering across the desert and being hit by gunfire, before being totally destroyed in a fireball explosion. It is unclear what happened to the truck driver.The peshmerga have launched an offensive against Islamic State militants across the Mala Abdula-Talward frontline in southwest Kirkuk.Kurdish forces drove Islamic State militants back from the oil-rich city in northern Iraq on Monday , in an advance backed by heavy air strikes from a US-led coalition.Kurdish fighters retook around 100 square km (40 square miles), including about a dozen villages, from Islamic State to the south and west of Kirkuk, killing some 100 militants, a statement from the region's security council said.Kirkuk governor Najmaldin Karim told local television the purpose of the offensive was to secure Kirkuk, which the Kurds have held since last summer.
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