New IS video shows Kurdish fighters in cages

The self-proclaimed Islamic State group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages.

February 22, 2015

Sahoub Baghdadi

 


 


BAGHDAD — The self-proclaimed Islamic State group released a new video on Sunday purporting to show captured Kurdish peshmerga fighters paraded through Iraqi streets in cages. The video shows 21 captives presented as 16 peshmerga fighters, two Iraqi army officers and three policemen from Kirkuk, a city about 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad. 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. — AFP


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