Washington: In another gruesome video released on Sunday, the barbaric extremist group Islamic State has claimed the beheading of 26-year-old American aid worker Peter Kassig, reports said.
The 16-minute video released on social media purportedly shows a masked Islamic State fighter dressed in black standing near a severed head, that he claims to be that of Kassig.
The video also shows the mass execution of several captured Syrian soldiers, reports add.
If confirmed, Kassig will be the fifth Westerner and third American to be beheaded by the ISIS in less than three months.
The beheading video comes more than a month after the IS released the beheading video of British aid worker Alan Henning in October. At the end of the video, the executioner - supposedly “Jihadi John” - had threatened to kill Peter Kassig, brandishing knife near his neck.
A day after the video release, Kassig's parents who hail from Indiana, took to YouTube to make an elegiac plea to the barbaric fighters, calling on them to show mercy and let their son go unharmed.
In the emotional video, Kassig's mother is shown wearing a headscarf and refers to her son as as Abdul-Rahman - a name he took after being converted to Islam during the IS captivity.
Kassig's parents made the request to the IS even as earlier pleas made by the parents of other hostages have fallen on Islamic State's deaf ears and the extremists have ended up beheading them.
Kassig had been held in Syria since October 2013. Kassig was an American Army Range before he went to the middle East to work as an aid worker in Syria.
The new IS video comes as the US and other anti-IS nations have intensified the air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria.
The video also may be the Islamic state's answer to the reports that claim that Jihadi John – the British-accented executioner was hit in US air strike
Earlier there were reports of IS Caliph being injured in one of the air strikes by US-led anti-IS coalition.
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