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The soldier was caught in a bloody stand off with the Islamic State (ISIS) soldiers but incredibly managed to turn it around and decapitated one with a single swipe of the kukri.

The dramatic scenes unfolded after the SAS and Iraqi team entered an ambushed factory to snoop on a sniper in the besieged city of Fallujah, a key ISIS stronghold.

But the elite forces were quickly ambushed by crazed ISIS jihadis, leaving several Iraqi soldiers dead and four seriously injured.

As the SAS solider attempted to drag injured troops to safety, he was pinned down by enemy gun-fire.