Ten-year-old Aysha tells troops how her father, as well as other children, have been killed by Islamic State in her village of Kafel, near Iraq’s second city

This is the heartbreaking moment a little girl weeps and offers to ‘kiss the feet’ of forces arriving to reclaim her city from Islamic State.

Ten-year-old Aysha tells troops “I thought you’d never come” as they arrived near Mosul in northern Iraq, which has been under ISIS control since 2014.

The child described how her village Kafer, around 18 miles from Mosul, had been ripped apart by the Islamist extremists.

She said her father, as well as other children in the village, had been killed and her family left with nothing.

She spoke emotionally into a camera as Iraqi soldiers arrived, saying: “I’m so thankful to you, I thought you’d never come for us.

“We had no food or water for three days and I was just me and my mother.

“My father was killed by the terrorists,” she continued.

“The IS men have taken away so many children from the village and we don’t know what happened to them.

“Some of them died. The men made my mother give them money and jewels and we have nothing.

“Thank you, thank you. I would like to kiss your feet”.

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