Grisly ISIS propaganda video shows the brutal executions of victims including an Iraqi soldier who crawls on his hands and knees as he begs for mercy

A horrific new ISIS propaganda video has emerged, which shows several of the terror group's victims begging for their lives before they are brutally executed. The grisly video, although undated, appears to be located primarily in Anbar Province in Iraq. Iraqi soldiers, officers and government officials are among those slaughtered in the footage, which shows ISIS
fighters beheading and shooting their victims.  

In one clip an Iraqi soldier dressed in civilian clothing begs for his life, while another shows an Iraqi government vehicle exploding after running over a roadside bomb during fighting in the province. 

Other moments in the video show the execution of an Iraqi government official found during a vehicle search at a checkpoint on a highway in Anbar Province. 

Gun-wielding ISIS fighters can also be seen driving at high speeds through the town; other foreign ISIS fighters hold up their passports as they pledge allegiance to the so-called caliphate. 

Releasing the video could be an attempt by ISIS to regain some strength in the country, following announcements this week that the number of fighters has fallen to its lowest level since 2014. 

It follows a wave of military action in Iraq and Syria, backed by US troops. 

The territory held by ISIS has been reduced by 40 per cent in Iraq, according to an announcement made yesterday by the US deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken. 

US-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces have pushed ISIS fighters back from the Iraqi cities of Tikrit and Ramadi, and also taken territory in northern Syria.

Washington has led an international coalition against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since August 2014.

The US, which withdrew its forces from Iraq in 2011 after eight years of war, has officially redeployed 3,870 troops to the insurgency-wracked country in recent months.

However, the actual number is likely to be about 5,000, according to media reports. 

Meanwhile, ISIS has published a new kill list of Muslims in positions of power in the Western world – which included two senior Tories.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi were named as targets in the terror group’s glossy propaganda magazine Dabiq.

ISIS has put them on an official 'hit list' because they are 'overt crusaders' who 'involve themselves in the politics and enforcing laws of the kufr (disbelievers).' The British MPs appear on the kill list containing the names of a dozen high profile Muslims across the western world.

Other names includes Hillary Clinton's long-time staffer Huma Abedin, who has been Clinton's top aide since the mid-1990s. 

ISIS has also confirmed, for the first time, that brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who blew themselves up in the attacks on the Belgian capital, were responsible for 'all preparations for the raids in Paris and Brussels.'

'Paris was a warning. Brussels was a reminder,' the Dabiq article warned. 'What is yet to come will be more devastating and more bitter by the permission of Allah, and Allah prevails.'

The suicide attacks on the Belgian capital last month killed 34 people and wounded more than 270 others.

Khalid, 27, and Ibrahim, 29, had joined ISIS while in jail for charges of carjacking and bank robbery.

Their involvement provided for the first time a direct link between the Brussels attacks and the Paris massacre that killed 130 people last November.

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