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The United States government has increased the bounty for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from $10 million to $25 million.

The reward will be handed to anyone who comes forward with information on the whereabouts of the terrorist that leads to his capture or death.

A Facebook and Twitter account belonging to the US Central Command confirmed the reward had been increased.

al-Baghdadi is now worth the same amount of money (£20 million) as the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Iraq-born al-Baghdadi sleeps undergound in a suicide vest and is becoming increasingly paranoid, ordering executions whilst under attack from Iraqi and Peshmerga troops .

Chilling details of Baghdadi’s movements emerged as Iraqi and Kurdish sources confirmed officers were getting leaks from within Mosul from an undercover agent.

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Senior Kurdish commanders have even revealed how they had a top agent inside Baghdadi’s inner circle- a former al-Qaeda man who had decided to work for Kurdish intelligence.

Iraqi intelligence commanders in Baghdad were receiving texts from an insider living in Mosul in the early stages of the operation to liberate the city from Islamic State .

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Sources say Islamic State has become so worried about insiders turning on them that they are employing “cub spooks” - young boys to spy on each other and each other’s families.

The then top top secret messages told how Baghdadi had become paranoid and dishevelled, ordering his men to kill anyone suspected of treachery among his followers.

An insider - who was not in Islamic State but was on the fringes of the death cult group - even told how Baghdadi slept in a suicide vest in case he was captured.

Sources claimed the ISIS leader had fled to a town bordering Syria as Iraqi and Peshmerga troops attacked in early November, besieging ISIS’s Iraqi stronghold.

One early November message to Iraqi intelligence read: “. . .the leader of Islamic State. . . has cut down on his movements and neglects his appearance.

“He lives underground and has tunnels that stretch to different areas. He doesn’t sleep without his suicide bomber vest so he can set it off if he’s captured.”

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The informant said defectors were being killed and Baghdadi was suspicious.

He said: “Sometimes he used to joke around. But now he no longer does.”

In the early stages of the batle for Mosul Peshmerga commanders revealed to the Daily Mirror that they had insiders tipping them off about Islamic State commanders.

But it has now emerged that intelligence agencies like the UK’s MI6 and CIA had trained “assets” or agents deep inside Mosul.

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Baghdadi proclaimed his evil caliphate in the Summer of 2014 from a Mosul mosque after his men overran the city, murdering thousands.

Karim Sinjari, interior minister and acting defence minister with the Kurdish Regional Government which controls the Kurdish area in northern Iraq, said islamic State is suffering.

He said many Iraqi fighters do not have the strong belief “...in martyrdom that the jihadis have.”

He added: “Most of the die-hard Islamists who are fighting to the death are foreign fighters, but their numbers at the frontline are less than before because they are getting killed in battle and in suicide attacks.”

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Revenge against suspected spies amongst IS was brutal - the group killed 58 suspected plotters by placing them in cages and drowning them, according to residents and Iraqi officials.

Since then, Islamic State has executed another 42 people from local tribes, Iraqi intelligence officers said.

They included anyone caught with SIM cards or in possession of any form of electronic communication - an automatic death sentence.

And cub jihadists are employed to snitch on each other.

Iraqi government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi said: “These young boys eavesdrop and find out information from other kids about their fathers, brothers, and their activities.

“In every street there are one or two ashbal al-khilafa who spy on the adults.”