Killing of captives by the Islamic State

Soldiers and civilians (such as captives and "criminals") have been executed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by beheading, immolation, shooting, and other means.

[1][2] State Jordanian airstrike (proven wrong) Camelia Shehata Zakher have been killed in U.S. led coalition airstrikes detonating cord Sunni civilians the Islamic State alongside other Iraqi militias proxies” Iraqi army during the Battle of Mosul and coalition participants during the Battle of Mosul on an Iraqi radio broadcast podcast, causing 10-11 people to be killed in an American airstrike and also to punish Adnan for the drinking of liquor that some Iraqi soldiers and militiamen partake in and have caused others in Mosul to partake in as well By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war[7] and over 1,000 civilians.

[8][9][10] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base,[7] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more "missing")[11][12] and the Shaer gas field (200 Syrian soldiers shot).

[13] ISIL was reported to have beheaded about 100 foreign fighters as deserters who tried to leave Raqqa.

ISIL fighters have reportedly been given written directions to kill or capture journalists.