JIHADISTS JUMP INTO RIVER TIGRIS

Baghdad, July 9: ISIS members threw themselves into the River Tigris on Sunday trying to flee the battlefield in Mosul. A US-trained elite Iraqi force in the Old City of Mosul reached the Tigris riverside, state TV said, indicating that the insurgents’ last redoubt is on the verge of falling.

Iraqi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told state TV earlier on Sunday that 30 militants had been killed attempting to get away by swimming across the Tigris.

Later, Iraqiya News ran and on-screen headline saying: “Forces from the Counter Terrorism Service raised the Iraqi flagon the Tigris river bank in the Old City of Mosul.”

ISIS vowed on Saturday to “fight to the death” in Mosul.