End Of ISIS? 'Demoralised' Jihadis Fleeing As Putin's Sends In 'Blazing Sun' Flamethrower Missile Launcher

MASS desertions from Islamic State (ISIS) terror cells in Syria have crippled the jihadi group,

possibly spelling the end of the barbaric self-styled caliphate, Moscow's Defence Ministry said today. Life under the cruel extremists is so tough that many once-committed militants are now fleeing ISIS territory for safety elsewhere in the region.

 

Strict rules and cruel punishments for breaking them have prompted desertions "en-masse" from jihadi training camps. The aerial bombardment from Russian and US-backed coalition warplanes has also taken its toll.

 

Senior Russian General Andrey Kartapolov told a briefing: "The majority of armed gangs are demoralised - discontent with field commanders is growing amid the fighters, and there are instances of disobeying orders."

 

He added that cases of desertion among the jihadists were no longer isolated, with entire groups of extremist militants now abandoning the self-styled caliphate "en-masse". News that Vladimir Putin has Russia's deadliest weapon yet in the fight against ISIS is only likely to speed up the desertion of fighters.

 

On Wednesday, General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministry, suggested that the group was on the verge of defeat after Russia cut off its arm supplies.

 

Dozens of sorties and hundreds of air strikes on ISIS and rebel targets in Syria has dealt a severe blow to the once-mighty terror network, which once boasted swaths of territory across Iraq and northern Syria.

 

Islamist fanatics are increasingly abandoning key positions as Russian jets pound the beleaguered group's arms depots, suicide bomb factories and heavy weaponry. Source; Express.co.uk