ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Islamic State (ISIS) released on Friday a video depicting the killing of five Kurdish captives in Raqqa. They were executed by gunshot by five children soldiers dressed in military fatigues. The children appear to be of five different nationalities: British, Kurdish, Tunisian, Egyptian, and Uzbekistani.
In the video, ISIS said that the captives were Kurdish and had been executed in Raqqa, but did not provide further information of which part of Kurdistan they were from, when they were been taken held captive, or when they were killed.
They were reportedly killed in retaliation for recent Kurdish advances in Syria.
This is not the first time ISIS released such videos of the killing of captives. They routinely release videos of executions for propaganda purposes.
