[h=1]'You can run, but you can't hide': US forces taunt ISIS in video showing fleeing Islamists blown up by a missile[/h]
By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:26, 7 September 2016 | UPDATED: 13:05, 7 September 2016
The US coalition battling ISIS has taunted the terror group in a video showing fleeing Islamists being blown up by a missile.
Footage shows an ISIS truck speeding along a desert road before it explodes in a huge fireball near Qayyarah in Iraq.
The black and white aerial video of the airstrike comes with the caption 'you can run, but you can't hide' in a stark warning to the extremists.
- Footage shows an ISIS truck speeding along a road near Qayyarah in Iraq
- The vehicle then explodes into a huge fireball after being hit in an airstrike
- US-led coalition posted film with message 'you can run, but you can't hide'
By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:26, 7 September 2016 | UPDATED: 13:05, 7 September 2016
The US coalition battling ISIS has taunted the terror group in a video showing fleeing Islamists being blown up by a missile.
Footage shows an ISIS truck speeding along a desert road before it explodes in a huge fireball near Qayyarah in Iraq.
The black and white aerial video of the airstrike comes with the caption 'you can run, but you can't hide' in a stark warning to the extremists.
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The US coalition battling ISIS has taunted the terror group in a video showing fleeing Islamists blown up by a missile.
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Footage shows an ISIS truck speeding along a desert road before it explodes in a huge fireball near Qayyarah in Iraq.
The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve posted the film alongside the words 'When Daesh can't quite get up to 88 mph' - an apparent reference to the movie Back to the Future, in which a DeLorean driving at that speed is capable of travelling through time
The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve posted the film alongside the words 'When Daesh can't quite get up to 88 mph' - an apparent reference to the movie Back to the Future, in which a DeLorean driving at that speed is capable of travelling through time.
Iraqi soldiers backed by coalition aircraft retook Qayyarah from ISIS on August 25.
As they fled, extremists torched oil wells and bombed pipe lines spilling oil through the streets of the town.
The retreat has provided Baghdad with a platform for its assault on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, which lies a little further to the north.
The prime minister has promised that offensive would be wrapped up by the end of 2016.
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The black and white aerial video of the airstrike comes with the caption 'you can run, but you can't hide' in a stark warning to the extremists
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Iraqi soldiers backed by coalition aircraft retook Qayyarah from ISIS on August 25
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Footage shows a huge cloud of black smoke rising from the vehicle after it was hit in an airstrike
ISIS militants have already given up their last positions along the Turkish-Syrian border, depriving the group of important transit points for recruits and supplies.
But they still hold sway over a large area in Iraq and Syria and in the past few days has claimed deadly bombings in Baghdad and in Syria's regime stronghold of Tartus.
And while air strikes have eliminated ISIS leaders like Omar al-Shishani and propaganda chief Mohamed al-Adnani, foreign jihadists they attracted now pose a threat to many countries.
The retreat has provided Baghdad with a platform for its assault on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, which lies a little further to the north.
The prime minister has promised that offensive would be wrapped up by the end of 2016.
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The black and white aerial video of the airstrike comes with the caption 'you can run, but you can't hide' in a stark warning to the extremists
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Iraqi soldiers backed by coalition aircraft retook Qayyarah from ISIS on August 25
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Footage shows a huge cloud of black smoke rising from the vehicle after it was hit in an airstrike
ISIS militants have already given up their last positions along the Turkish-Syrian border, depriving the group of important transit points for recruits and supplies.
But they still hold sway over a large area in Iraq and Syria and in the past few days has claimed deadly bombings in Baghdad and in Syria's regime stronghold of Tartus.
And while air strikes have eliminated ISIS leaders like Omar al-Shishani and propaganda chief Mohamed al-Adnani, foreign jihadists they attracted now pose a threat to many countries.
