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| New Isis video shows hostages divided into groups to be decapitated, blown up or drowned as execution methods get increasingly macabre | New Isis video shows hostages divided into groups to be decapitated, blown up or drowned as execution methods get increasingly macabre |
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| Isis has released gruesome footage claiming to show the murder of more than a dozen men by drowning, decapitation and using a rocket-propelled grenade. | Isis has released gruesome footage claiming to show the murder of more than a dozen men by drowning, decapitation and using a rocket-propelled grenade. |
| The so-called Islamic State’s media arm claimed the 16 men were killed in Iraq's Nineveh province for spying. | The so-called Islamic State’s media arm claimed the 16 men were killed in Iraq's Nineveh province for spying. |
| Images, which The Independent has chosen not to publish, showed them split into groups and dressed in orange jumpsuits to be murdered. | Images, which The Independent has chosen not to publish, showed them split into groups and dressed in orange jumpsuits to be murdered. |
| Four men were trapped in a car that was blown up using a rocket-propelled grenade in the desert, while five more were seen being locked in a cage similar to that used to burn Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh alive earlier this year. | Four men were trapped in a car that was blown up using a rocket-propelled grenade in the desert, while five more were seen being locked in a cage similar to that used to burn Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh alive earlier this year. |
| They were filmed being lowered into what appeared to be a swimming pool in the cage, which was loaded with underwater cameras that recorded them drowning. | They were filmed being lowered into what appeared to be a swimming pool in the cage, which was loaded with underwater cameras that recorded them drowning. |
| A third group of seven men were made to kneel as explosives were wound around their necks to decapitate them. | A third group of seven men were made to kneel as explosives were wound around their necks to decapitate them. |
| The deaths were shown in a seven-minute video, complete with religious backing music and militants inspecting their corpses and body parts. The brutal propaganda comes after Isis suffered losses in at the hands of Kurdish forces, militias, government troops and the US-backed coalition in Syria and Iraq | |
| Isis also forced the prisoners to make statements that appeared to affirm their supposed guilt before they died. | Isis also forced the prisoners to make statements that appeared to affirm their supposed guilt before they died. |
| Nineveh forms part of the group's territories across swathes of Iraq and Syria and a video was released by militants in February showing them destroying ancient artifacts from its ancient Assyrian city after declaring them blasphemous. | Nineveh forms part of the group's territories across swathes of Iraq and Syria and a video was released by militants in February showing them destroying ancient artifacts from its ancient Assyrian city after declaring them blasphemous. |
| The province has also been the scene of more killings, including stoning a woman to death for adultery and beheading allegedly gay men, under Isis' bloody interpretation of Sharia law. | The province has also been the scene of more killings, including stoning a woman to death for adultery and beheading allegedly gay men, under Isis' bloody interpretation of Sharia law. |
| The latest mass killings came as Kurdish fighters and their allies reportedly captured a military base once held by Isis in Syria activists and officials said Tuesday, moving within some 30 miles of the extremists' de facto capital of Raqqa. Isis' advance caused thousands of civilians to flee from Nineveh last year | The latest mass killings came as Kurdish fighters and their allies reportedly captured a military base once held by Isis in Syria activists and officials said Tuesday, moving within some 30 miles of the extremists' de facto capital of Raqqa. Isis' advance caused thousands of civilians to flee from Nineveh last year |
| Charlie Winter, a researcher at counter extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation, had predicted Isis would be “more active than ever” as the one-year anniversary of the declaration of the Islamic State approaches on Sunday | Charlie Winter, a researcher at counter extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation, had predicted Isis would be “more active than ever” as the one-year anniversary of the declaration of the Islamic State approaches on Sunday |
| “There is a concerted effort to appear as relevant as ever, stronger than ever and more defiant than ever in the face of international opposition,” he added, saying the group would be planning “more violence, more advances, more attacks”. | “There is a concerted effort to appear as relevant as ever, stronger than ever and more defiant than ever in the face of international opposition,” he added, saying the group would be planning “more violence, more advances, more attacks”. |
| The US is heading two separate international coalitions conducting air strikes against Isis in both Iraq and Syria, while Kurds, Iranian-backed militias and government troops are fighting on the ground. | The US is heading two separate international coalitions conducting air strikes against Isis in both Iraq and Syria, while Kurds, Iranian-backed militias and government troops are fighting on the ground. |