Meanwhile, Independent.ie reports on ISIS’s latest effort to burnish its reputation for brutality: A new video released by ISIS shows 17 captured Kurdish fighters being paraded in cages.

The men in the video are dressed in orange jump suits and shackled – much like murdered Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh.

The group is also threatening to burn the men alive.

It is believed the video was shot in the northwestern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.