ISIS fighter beheads three Peshmerga prisoners on the streets in Iraq

An ISIS militant has beheaded three prisoners in an extremely graphic ISIS video purportedly filmed in Iraq.

The harrowing footage shows the bearded ISIS fighter, thought to be of Kurdish origin, ranting to the camera and threatening Peshmerga forces and the Kurdish president Masoud Barzani.

The propaganda video comes as ISIS have suffered heavy losses north of Raqqa, with Kurdish forces gaining significant ground in Hasakah province.

A largely Kurdish group called the Syrian Democratic Forces, backed up by commando training and US-led precision air strikes, captured the town of Al-Shaddadi.

The gains with Kurdish forces come as ISIS struggles to prevent losses in northern Iraq, having already lost territory at Tikrit, Kirkuk and more recently near Baghdad at Ramadi.

The next major target in Iraq for government forces and Shiite paramilitary groups has long been thought to be the retaking of the key city of Mosul.

Questions remain how easy it will be to re-capture the stronghold, where ISIS have dug in and established significant defenses.

Much of the video seems to be made up of old archive footage from ISIS’s battles on the frontline, interweaved with news coverage of attacks.

The video seemingly focuses on the recent airstrikes in Syria and Iraq on ISIS territory, claiming the executions were in retaliation for the death of civilians.

The remaining final minutes of the video are too graphic to describe with the bearded executor murdering the three blindfolded prisoners in red jumpsuits, according to The Sun.

Source: Daily Mail