Militants
have released a video which appears to show a Kurdish man being beheaded in
Iraq.
The six-minute video is
titled "A Message in Blood" and shows men wearing orange jumpsuits
who are said to be Kurdish fighters captured by IS.
One man is later seen
kneeling outside a mosque in the city of Mosul before he is beheaded.
The jihadists have warned
that the other fighters will be killed if Kurdish leaders continue to back the
US.
One of the captured men
said: "Any mistake or recklessness from you will lead to the (loss) of our
life."
It comes after President
Barack Obama called for a coalition of countries prepared to take military action
against IS.
Screen grab of Islamic
State video showing Kurdish fighters
The new video shows
captured Kurdish fighters wearing orange jump-suits
Mr Obama said the US was
working to get more countries on board in order to strike at the jihadist
group.
He said: "We are going
to work politically and diplomatically with folks in the region, and we're
going to cobble together the kind of coalition that we need for a long-term
strategy as soon as we are able to fit together the military, political and economic
components of that strategy."
Mr Obama played down the
prospect of imminent US military action in Syria, saying "we don't have a
strategy yet", but said it was time for Middle Eastern nations to
"stop being ambivalent".
France has already ruled
itself out. The UK has so far provided humanitarian assistance and Prime
Minister David Cameron has said he does not want troops on the ground.
The Reuters news agency
said the video, which was posted on YouTube and shows dozens of bodies, had
been confirmed as genuine by an IS fighter.
"Yes we have executed
them all," he said.
The video shows the bodies
of scores of men wearing nothing but their underwear lying face down. The line
of bodies appears to be dozens of metres long.
A caption written
underneath says: "The 250 shabeeha taken captive by the Islamic State from
Tabqa in Raqqa have been executed."
Sky news
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