Stripped to their underwear and marched to their deaths, this shocking video shows the fate of 250 soldiers executed by Islamic State fighters.
The horrific footage shows a long row of dead bodies with the victims in nothing but their underwear, face down in the dust.
Their bodies stretch out in a long line that appeared to be dozens of metres long.
A separate pile of corpses is visible near-by.
The Syrian soldiers were captured by the extremists when IS seized an air base in the province of Raqqa at the weekend, according to the video posted on YouTube.
“The 250 shabeeha taken captive by the IS from Tabqa in Raqqa have been executed,” read the caption posted with the video.
Th term ‘shabeeha’ refers to the soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, and is used by the Islamist militants fighting him.
An IS fighter in Raqqa confirmed the video’s authenticity to Reuters news agency in a telephone conversation, saying: “Yes we have executed them all.”
