ISIS straps bomb to puppy in desperate fight for territory

Islamic State fighters, who are known for using a range of improvised explosive devices, have strapped a puppy with a bomb in a desperate attempt to maintain control of its captured territories.

The Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), a group of militia that fights against the jihadis in Iraq, has released a video showing three of its fighters crouching over the puppy while discussing the device strapped to its body.

The PMU fighters said that ISIS fighters wanted the dog to cross the front lines toward rival forces before they detonate the device by remote control. They noted that the device was designed to kill or injure up to four people.

"ISIS has just sent an innocent animal with explosives wrapped around it to our position to try and blow our troops up," the group said, as reported by Express.

The group stated that the explosives have been disarmed, and the puppy is being sent to the Baghdad Zoo.

"What was this animal's crime? Even animals, ISIS booby traps them and send them out against us.They have no morals, they will never defeat us those dirty ISIS fighters," the PMU fighters remarked.

ISIS has been reportedly deploying a range of increasingly desperate weapons as it fights to maintain control of its strongholds in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. The terror group has attached improvised hand grenade holders to remote control drones in order to drop bombs on rival forces.

Last November, it was reported that the extremists have been using children's toys, such as teddy bears, to hide explosives, so that it would detonate when picked up by unsuspecting children.

"Why would Isis use something nice, like a bear or a rabbit? They used this toy because they know the peshmerga [Kurdish fighters] will not touch it, but children will," Colonel Nawzad Kamil Hassan, an engineer with the Kurdish forces, said at that time.

Mundane objects such as a playing card and an abandoned watch have been turned to detonators that are designed to attract the curiosity of civilians returning to Mosul.

Hassan said that he has decided to preserve some of the most creative, cruel and unusual improvised devices to use as training aids for new recruits to his unit. At that time, his unit has cleared over 50 tons of explosives from the areas that were once under the militant's control.