Isis has released a video apparently
showing the beheading of a Kurdish
man in Iraq as a warning to Kurds
fighting the group in the country. The video, entitled “A Message in
Blood”, was posted online hours after
another video purporting to show the
mass execution of up to 250 Syrian soldiers in the desert. It shows a group of captured men,
believed to be Kurdish fighters, in
orange jumpsuits sat in front of an Isis
flag. Kurdish "peshmerga" fighters are
trying to counter the militant’s
advances in northern Iraq. They are
backed by US air strikes on Isis targets
in the country. Another man is then shown kneeling
on the floor in front of a mosque with
three militants behind him in Mosul,
Iraq’s second biggest city, which was
overrun by Isis when their insurgency
began. The victim is then beheaded and the
fighters warn others will face the same
fate should Kurdish leaders choose to
continue an alliance with the US. It comes after the group posted a
video on YouTube showing the
American journalist James Foley being
beheaded by a militant, who said his
killing was in response to air strikes.
The fighter, who is believed to be British, also threatened the life of
another journalist, Steven Sotloff. Video footage posted on Thursday
appeared to show Syrian soldiers
being marched through the desert in
their underwear after Isis seized the
Tabqa air base in Raqqa. The 250 shabeeha taken captive by
the Islamic State [ISIS] from Tabqa in
Raqqa have been executed," a caption
posted with the video read. Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said the soldiers were captured
when they attempted to flee the fallen
air base in Raqqa after days of fierce
fighting. They put the death toll at 120. On Thursday, President Barack Obama
admitted the US does not yet have a
strategy for confronting Isis militants
in Syria. He approved air strikes against Isis in
Iraq earlier this month following the
beheading of Mr Foley but has not
made public any plans for across the
border He told a press briefing in Washington:
“I think what I’ve seen in some of the
news reports suggests that folks are
getting a little further ahead of where
we’re at than we currently are. “Our core priority right now is just to
make sure that our folks are safe and
to do an effective assessment of Iraqi
and Kurdish capabilities.”

source: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-a-message-in-blood-video-shows-beheading-of-kurdish-man-in-iraq-9698455.html