ISIS video claims beheading of US hostage Peter Kassig

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Islamic State militants have reportedly beheaded US aid worker Peter Kassig, a video posted on social media shows. The militant group has further threatened to kill other US citizens “on your streets.”

Kassig, 26, was captured on October 1, 2013, by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants on his way to the city of Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria.

After conversion during captivity, Kassig took the name Abdul-Rahman.

The footage does not actually show the executioner, a British militant known as ‘Jihadi John’, kill Kassig. According to Reuters, John can be seen standing with a decapitated head at his feet.

“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen,” he says.

This comes despite earlier reports that the extremist, who has executed other UK and US hostages, was wounded in an airstrike on a top-level extremists’ meeting in Iraq last week.

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