ISIS has released a new propaganda video showing what appears to be Kurdish Peshmerga fighters paraded down Iraqi streets in cages.
The video features a man saying the Peshmerga soldiers were captured by ISIS.
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video. But it shows at least 21 men in orange jumpsuits hauled in the cages atop the beds of pickup trucks.
The man with a microphone bearing the ISIS logo interviews the captives, who say they are Peshmerga soldiers. Most of those interviewed say they are from Kirkuk. The prisoners, under duress, call on their fellow Peshmerga soldiers to give up their fight against ISIS.
The heavily edited footage also includes flashing clips of the recent beheadings of Christian Egyptians in Libya.
It’s not clear what happened to the Peshmerga fighters in the video. The last scene shows them alive.
But a man in the video gives an ominous warning.
“We say to the Peshmerga: Leave your jobs, or your fate will be like these, either the cage, or under the ground,” he says in Kurdish.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the video released by ISIS. While the video shows that the caged prisoners are threatened with execution, they are shown alive at the end of the video.
