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The terror group made the move in Mosul, their last Iraqi stronghold, as coalition airstrikes took their toll.

Jihadi bases in the city have been levelled and a wave of assassinations have rocked the ISIS hierarchy, local sources said.

Now the bloodthirsty cult has withdrawn all its patrols from the streets of Mosul, where it's terrorised the local population since June 2014.

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Some 500,000 of the city's people managed to flee before ISIS arrived, but roughly two million people were left to endure occupation.

Phone and internet access was cut, and locals were banned from leaving, fearing the families they left behind would be killed.

It's possible that all of Mosul's 70,000 Christians have been killed or exiled, while those that remain pay extra taxes.

Local Yazidi women have been sold as sex slaves, and others have been made to cover their bodies from head to toe.

But that could all be about to change, with ISIS suffering heavy losses in the Qayyarah, Sharqat and Bashiqa neighbourhoods.

A source told Iraqi News: "The international coalition airstrikes destroyed gatherings points and headquarters of ISIS in the forest areas in Mosul.

"ISIS have panicked after the waves of assassinations and have begun to cut off the main roads to the residential neighborhoods, after declaring a state of emergency."