Another video has appeared purportedly showing Islamic State fighters showing off their captives. The 21 prisoners, said to be Kurdish peshmerga soldiers, are shown being paraded in metal cages through a town in northern Iraq.

They were captured by Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq and are now wearing the now familiar orange jumps suits of Islamic State prisoners. 

Kurdish peshmerga forces have been fighting IS in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq for months.

With the help of airstrikes from US led coalition aircraft, the pershmerga have managed to recapture much of the territory they lost to Islamic State last summer. 

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