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Muhammad Ali Karim is an Iraqi-Kurdish sniper and soldier in the Peshmerga forces who took on ISIS in the fight for Mosul.

Muhammad is reported to have taken out over 260 militants and is considered such a threat that the extremists have placed a bounty on his head.

He was trained as a sharpshooter by his father who was also a Peshmerga sniper fighting Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime.

The 40-year-old emigrated to Norway and lived there for most of his life, until the advent of Islamic extremism persuaded him to join the fight and return to his native country.

Muhammad said that he was sickened by the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq.

“As soon as Daesh invaded my country (in June 2014) I returned to Kurdistan to destroy this evil,” he said.

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“I want to kill them, get rid of them, because they are not human, they are evil,” he added.

ISIS’s influence has been waning after they lost the key city of Mosul to Iraqi forces last week.

One US general seemed to suggest that the terror-cult had now been defeated by saying that most ISIS leaders had “now been killed”.