PRESS TV: Hundreds of ISIS fighters surrender to Iraqi forces after fleeing Tal Afar pic.twitter.com/KevcVn2ijT

Twitter video credit: Press TV

Daily Mail UK reports:

The video circulating on social media purports to show suspected jihadis kneeling outside a desert town, which could be al-Ayadieh, patrolled by Iraqi peshmerga troops.

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ISIS fighters fled to al-Ayadieh after the key town of Tal Afar, one of its final strongholds in the country, fell last week.

Today, Iraqi military officials announced they had recaptured the eastern half of al-Ayadieh from the extremists.

Troops, police and special forces seized full control of the city of Tal Afar, ten miles from al-Ayadieh, last Sunday.

Between ‘150 and 200 ISIS fighters moved with their families up to Al-Ayadieh’, according to Brigadier General Andrew A Croft, deputy commander of the US-led coalition air units.

Iraqi forces had said the fighting in the area had been ‘multiple times worse’ than the battle for Mosul’s old city, which was retaken from ISIS last month.