She is recorded loading and firing the weapon at the

A Kurdish pop star who received death threats from ISIS has filmed defiant video where she blasts a tank's cannon at jihadi fighters in Iraq.

Gutsy Helen Abdulla shot the video for her new single, Revolution, in an abandoned village near Mosul, where the Kurdish militia are currently fighting IS just 1.5 miles away.

The single, which is set to be released next week, shows Abdulla - whose stage name is Helly Luv – heavily armed with bullets and wearing a pink keffiyeh scarf.

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Provocative: Pop star Helen Abdulla shot her latest music video just over a mile away from ISIS fighters

She paints the word 'revolution' on a tank shell in red lipstick before climbing onto the military vehicle and sliding the shell into the tank barrel and firing it on the ISIS front line in the distance.

'We were in a little village called Khazer that was attacked by Isis militants before and was abandoned. We were afraid to shoot as there were bombs left over and drove back at night because I thought it would be safer – but nothing was ever sure,' she told IBTimes UK.

'One day we saw on the news that they had shot a tank from the same location and it had hit Kalak - 15 minutes away from us – and killed and injured many civilians.'

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Fighter: Abdulla - whose stage name is Helly Luv - fired a tank at ISIS fighters in Iraq in her latest music video Revolution

Brave: The pop star traveled back to her native country from the US to shoot the video which shows her firing a tank at ISIS fighters

Message: Abdulla has already received death threats for her new song, called Revolution. In the video she writes it on the tank shell before firing it at ISIS

Footage of her shooting the weapon on the militants from inside the tank was deliberately omitted, in case it was accused of being a set up, she said.

Last year she was threatened after filming a raunchy music video in the streets of the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil.

She made the latest video to highlight the struggle of the Kurdish peshmerga, who have been fighting ISIS for more than a year along the porous border that separates Iraq's Kurdish region from the rest of Iraq.

The 26-year-old, who moved to the US when she was 18, recorded the music in her home town of Los Angeles before bravely flying back to her native land to film the video.

Her family fled Saddam Hussein's repression of the Kurds in 1988, moving to Finland, before she ended up in America.

Strut: The glamorous pop star is filmed walking to the tank in her gold shoes before firing a shell at ISIS fighters in Iraq

In her last video Risking it All, she called for Kurdish independence which led to the death threats.

The feisty singer threw a petrol bomb and draped herself over a lion while dancing with AK-47 wielding female peshmerga soldiers, in the video.