The jihadi maniac was driving a pick-up truck packed with one TONNE of explosives towards the Peshmerga frontline when he was expertly taken out by a soldier with a rocket launcher. Footage posted online shows the suicide bomber speeding across the plane as a narrator, believed to be a Peshmerga trooper, makes increasingly urgent pleas to his colleagues to take him out.

YouTube/Kurdistan News The ISIS suicide bomber was blown up by Kurdish troops

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Several rockets are fired and miss their target before one finally finds its mark in the nick of time, with the explosive-laden car just yards from the Kurdish frontline. Kurdish media outlets posted the video online on Christmas Eve, when the incident is thought to have happened.

YouTube/Kurdistan News The pick-up truck was laden with one tonne of TNT

The description with the video says the ISIS jihadi was carrying more than a tonne of TNT explosives inside a Ford pick-up truck before he was blown up just outside the terror group’s stronghold of Mosul, in northern Iraq. In the video a Kurdish fighter can be heard in panicky voice saying “it’s coming closer and closer…come on…hurry and hit it…hit it before yelping in delight as the car goes up in flames. Debris shoots up in the air as the vehicle ignites in a massive explosion, instantly incinerating the suicide bomber at the wheel. ISIS frequently uses suicide bomber cars laden with explosives to attack enemy lines in a bid to cause panic.

YouTube/Kurdistan News Near miss: A Kurdish rocket just misses the speeding vehicle

AP The video was released after Iraqi forces recaptured Ramadi

Congratulations to our peoples... the battles are ongoing Kurdish spokesman Sherfan Darwish

The latest incident occurred on the same stretch of frontline where the terror group suffered a crushing defeat earlier this month, when they unexpectedly ran into Canadian special forces. More than 200 jihadis were killed, including some suicide car bombers, in a humiliating setback. The dramatic footage emerged as Kurdish forces continued to make significant advances against ISIS, recapturing a key dam in neighbouring Syria. Peshmerga forces backed by allied Arab rebels and Western airstrikes seized the Tishreen dam, which is in a key position in the north of the war-ravaged country.

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After intense fighting with ISIS jihadis they stormed the control room, held since the terror group since last year. The capture of the dam is a huge coup for the Kurds, as it provides most of the electricity used across northern Aleppo province, much of which is still under ISIS control. It was their second major victory in the region in recent weeks, coming after their forces ousted ISIS fighters from some 200 villages in the northeastern province of Hasakeh. Sherfan Darwish, spokesman for an Arab rebel group in the SDF, wrote online: "Congratulations to our peoples... the battles are ongoing, the operation is ongoing, and the victories are ongoing."

Twitter/@melebextiyar Kurdish forces also captured a key dam today

Twitter/@DefenseUnits The dam provides electricity to much of northern Syria