One shot fired: How an SAS soldier killed an ISIS militant from more than 2km away

An SAS sniper has reportedly killed an ISIS Jihadi from more than two kilometres away using one very powerful rifle.

The Daily Star reports the British sniper used a CheyTac M200 Intervention gun to shoot the insurgent in the throat as part of an operation for the Iraqi city of Mosul two weeks ago.

The bullet reportedly took three seconds to hit its target from 2.4km away and was the only shot fired by the sniper during a four-hour game of cat and mouse.

“Just as the light was beginning to fade the gunman moved into what he thought was a safe location and lifted his rifle up into his shoulder before the SAS shot him dead,” a source told The Daily Star.

The weapon was reportedly on loan from the US Special Forces as part of a battlefield trial.