New Islamic State Video Purports to Show Captured Fighters Paraded Through Streets in Cages

Islamic State terrorists released a new propaganda video Sunday purporting to show Kurdish fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages, Agence France-Presse reported.

The video allegedly shows 21 prisoners: 16 peshmerga fighters, two Iraqi army officers and three policemen from Kirkuk, which is about 150 miles north of Baghdad, AFP noted.

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The captives, in orange jumpsuits with their heads lowered, are led to cages in a square surrounded by concrete walls and masked IS fighters carrying pistols.

A bearded man in a white turban warns the peshmerga against fighting IS.

Then the caged captives are shown being paraded through the streets on the back of pick-up trucks, as dozens of residents and armed men look on.

Kurdish sources told AFP the video was filmed a week ago. CNN reported that the prisoners, "under duress, call on their fellow Peshmerga soldiers to give up their fight" against the Islamic State.

CNN added that a man in the video gave this warning in Kurdish: "We say to the Peshmerga: Leave your jobs, or your fate will be like these, either the cage, or under the ground."

AFP reported that the fighters were shown at the end of the video kneeling before masked men holding automatic weapons or pistols.

TheBlaze cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the video.

Here's a report from CNN:

This story has been updated.

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