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An astonishing video showing an elderly woman standing tall against two ISIS militants has emerged online.

Showing spine-tingling bravery, the unidentified woman calls the two men, who are sat in a car, "devils" and urges them to "turn back to God".

One of the fighter, likely unused to such defiance, asks: "Grandmother, what do you mean?

"Everything is good between us, right?"

She ignores his answer and says: "Do not slaughter anyone and nobody will slaughter you.

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"It’s all forbidden. I swear nothing you have done was in the way of God.

"Not one of you will win anything, not you or Bashar (Al-Assad, the president of Syria, which is fighting ISIS)

Her face twisting in fury, she spits: "It’s all s*** making us go backward. None of you is good.

"God will not stop the regime nor will he make you successful."

One of the men tells the woman to go away, but she is undeterred by his dismissal.

She said: "You only keep killing each other like donkeys

"Your state (ISIS) is cursed."

She then quotes from the Koran, the Islamic holy book so crudely twisted by the evil regime: "If two parties of the believers quarrel, make peace between them.

"But if one of them acts wrongfully towards the other, fight that which acts wrongfully.

"You don’t want this slaughtering, nor do you want this murder."

Chillingly, the man quotes an ISIS slogan in response: "We have come to you with slaughter."

His implied threat fails to scare the woman, who continues: "We did destroy generations before you when they were unjust. We recompense the guilty.

"God is watching what you are doing.

"Those who deny our verses and are arrogant towards them, the gates of heaven will not be opened for them, nor will they enter paradise."

It is not known what her fate was after her extraordinary tirade.

The video emerged as U.S.-led forces hit Islamic State targets in Iraq with 12 air strikes and three air strikes in Syria since Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

Four strikes near Mosul and three near Kirkuk hit Islamic State tactical units, bulldozers, vehicles, buildings and heavy machine guns, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Thursday.

It said the other strikes hit tactical units in Makhmur and Tal Afar, a mortar position near al Asad and earthen berms used to control water near Falluja.

The strikes in Syria destroyed six militant fighting positions near Kobani and "multiple" oil pump jacks near al Hasaka, the statement said.