Four Peshmerga soldiers reportedly 'beheaded by Isis' at site of recent US-Kurdish raid against Isis prison in Iraq
The beheadings took place at an Isis prison that was attacked by US Special Forces and Peshmerga soldiers last week
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Your support makes all the difference.Isis militants have reportedly beheaded four Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers at the site of a US-Peshmerga raid against an Isis prison compound which occurred on 22 October.
The Kurdish Rudaw agency, citing the pro-Isis Aamaq blog, said four Peshmerga fighters had been killed at the compound in Hawija in northern Iraq, where the joint raid took place.
An anonymous Isis source told Aamaq that other Peshmerga are in Isis hands, but there is no information about what could happen to them.
No pictures or video to support the claim were provided, but Isis are reportedly planning to release a video with information about the raid.
Last week's raid involved around 60 soldiers from the Peshmerga and US Special Forces.
The Kurdish National Security Council said at the time that one American soldier was killed and three Kurds were injured in the operation.
69 Isis prisoners, all of them Sunni Arabs, were released from the prison during the raid.
As Rudaw reports, Masoud Barzani, the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, met with the freed prisoners and told them: "You were lucky to be rescued, but unfortunately there were none of the Peshmerga left who were [in the prison] before."
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