
A video has been released reportedly showing ISIS fighters crawling out of their tunnels to surrender to Counter Terrorism units in Mosul after the city was reclaimed from jihadists.

The clip, uploaded to Twitter on Wednesday, appears to show wounded fighters, one using a pair of crutches, walking away from a destroyed building.

The men can be seen with black hoods over their faces as they are led away by Counter Terrorism forces.

Video shows Islamic State militants sat on a pile of rubble after surrendering in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, this week

A video has been released reportedly showing ISIS fighters (pictured) crawling out of their tunnels to surrender to Counter Terrorism units in Mosul after the city was reclaimed from jihadists

The video uploader captioned the footage: 'More ISIS rats crawling out of their tunnels to surrender to Counter Terrorism units in Mosul Old city.'

The Twitter account added that many of the captured jihadists are foreign fighters and are being transferred to Baghdad.

Reacting to the video, some commenters suggested the fighters could be from Saudi Arabia.

Another commenter said: 'I hope they will be done for murder and given the correct punishment!'

Just yesterday, more pictures emerged of half-naked ISIS fighters being paraded through the streets while others were bundled out of an armoured vehicle.

The clip, uploaded to Twitter on Wednesday, appears to show wounded fighters, one using a pair of crutches, walking away from a destroyed building

Meanwhile, Iraqi forces clashed with Islamic State militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the jihadists in what they had declared the de facto Iraqi capital of their 'caliphate'.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory announcement signalled the biggest defeat for the hardline Sunni group since its lightning sweep through northern Iraq three years ago. But pockets of Mosul remain insecure and the city has been heavily damaged by nearly nine months of gruelling urban combat.

About 900,000 people fled the fighting, with more than a third sheltered in camps outside Iraq's second largest city and the rest living with family and friends in other neighbourhoods.

Civilian activity has quickly returned to much of Mosul and work is underway to repair damaged homes and infrastructure, something the United Nations estimates will initially cost more than $1 billion.

The men can be seen with black hoods (pictured) over their faces as they are led away by Counter Terrorism forces

The video uploader added that many of the captured jihadists are foreign fighters and are being transferred to Baghdad

Reacting to the video, some commenters suggested the fighters could be from Saudi Arabia. Another commenter said: 'I hope they will be done for murder and given the correct punishment!'

Newly trained local police are deployed in Mosul alongside the military, but authorities have not prepared a post-battle plan for governance and security in the city, officials say.

Iraqi forces exchanged gunfire with the militants in their final Mosul redoubt just before midnight and through the day on Wednesday, three residents living just across the Tigris River from the area.

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Army helicopters strafed the Old City and columns of smoke rose into the air, though it was unclear if these came from controlled explosions or bombs set off by Islamic State, the residents said by phone.

'We still live in an atmosphere of war despite the victory announcement two days ago,' said Fahd Ghanim, 45. Another resident said the blasts shook the ground around half a kilometre away.

An Iraqi military official attributed the activity to 'clearing operations'.

'Daesh is hiding in different places,' he said, using an acronym for Islamic State. 'They disappear here and pop up there, then we target them.'

Media access to the area has been heavily restricted since Abadi claimed victory on Monday, hailing 'the collapse of the terrorist state'.

Footage released by Islamic State news agency Amaq entitled 'Fighting till the last gasp' and allegedly filmed in Mosul's Maydan district showed militants mixed in with civilians and unidentified corpses lying amid the rubble of an urban battlefield.

Thousands of civilians have been killed during the Mosul offensive. Many were targeted by Islamic State but rights groups have also accused Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition backing them of killings that violated international humanitarian law.

On Tuesday, Amnesty International cited a reliance on weapons it said had only crude targeting capabilities.

The coalition strongly rejected the charges, and Abadi, without mentioning Amnesty, said in a statement on Wednesday that rights groups should check their sources.

The Iraqi official declined to estimate the number of militants or civilians remaining in the Old City, but the top U.S. general in Iraq said on Tuesday that as many as a couple of hundred IS insurgents could still be in Mosul.

Just yesterday, more pictures emerged of half-naked ISIS fighters (pictured) being paraded through the streets while others were bundled out of an armoured vehicle

Government forces have been rounding up men they accuse of being part of ISIS (pictured, a suspected militant)

'There are bypassed holdouts. We haven't cleared every building in this city the size of Philadelphia. That's going to have to be done, and there are also hidden IEDs (improvised explosive devices),' Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend told reporters. 'There are still going to be losses from the Iraqi security forces as they continue to secure Mosul.'

The coalition said it had conducted three air strikes on IS in the Mosul area on Tuesday, targeting militants, machine-gun emplacements and rocket-propelled grenade systems.

South of the city, Iraqi security forces repelled an IS attack launched from western desert areas on the village of al-Jaran, a tribal fighter said.

Reinforcements also arrived to help government forces oust militants armed with machine guns and mortars from the village of Imam Gharbi, further to the south.

Airstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the Old City yesterday (pictured) a day after Iraq's prime minister declared 'total victory' in Mosul

About 900,000 people fled the fighting, with more than a third sheltered in camps outside Iraq's second largest city and the rest living with family and friends in other neighbourhoods. Pictured, a displaced Iraqi child who fled home is seen at Khazer camp, Iraq, on Wednesday

Civilian activity has quickly returned to much of Mosul and work is underway to repair damaged homes and infrastructure, something the United Nations estimates will initially cost more than $1 billion. Pictured, children in the Khazer camp on Wednesday

The government's victory in Mosul may rekindle revenge attacks and fresh violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites, a sectarian divide that tipped Iraq into civil war after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. Pictured, children in the Khazer camp on Wednesday

A policeman was killed and two others wounded in clashes on Wednesday, a security official said. IS has taken more than 75 percent of the village since storming it last week.

These are the kind of asymmetric, guerrilla-style strikes Islamic State is expected to concentrate on now as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces regain control over cities the group captured during its shock 2014 offensive.

Another attack on a border guard convoy in western Anbar province, near the Syrian border, killed two soldiers and wounded four on Tuesday, military sources said.

Separately, 28 Sunni Muslim civilians were kidnapped in the Iskandariya district south of Baghdad this week and 20 of them were found dead later, a police officer said.

Suspects detained by the authorities said they belonged to the Shi'ite Muslim Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. A Baghdad-based spokesman for the group, whose fighters are taking part in the Shi'ite-led government's campaign against Islamic State, said he had no knowledge of the incident.

The government's victory in Mosul may rekindle revenge attacks and fresh violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites, a sectarian divide that tipped Iraq into civil war after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.