Killing of captives by the Islamic State

List of executions by ISIS

Executions by ISIS refers here to killing by beheading, immolation, shooting, or other means of soldiers and civilians (such as captives and "criminals") by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). ISIL has released a number of propaganda/publicity videos of beheadings or shootings of captives. Houtat Sulūk is reported to be a mass grave.[1][2]

## List of notable Islamic State executions

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Victim(s)  | Sex(s)  | Nationality(s) of victim(s)  | Date of execution
(approx.) | Place of execution
(approx.) | Method(s)  | Reason(s)

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39 Indian migrant workers | ?  | Indian | June 2014 | Mosul, Iraq | Unknown execution method  | Failure to pay Ransom
1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers | M  | Iraqi | June 12, 2014 | Tikrit, Iraq  | Shooting | Sectarian violence against Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq
200 Syrian soldiers | M  | Syrian | July 16–26, 2014  | Palmyra, Syria | Shooting  | Revenge against the Syrian regime
75 Syrian soldiers  | M  | Syrian  | July 25, 2014 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading | Holding position in Raqqa under allegiance to Bashar al-Assad
James Wright Foley | M  | American | August 19, 2014 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading  | Retaliation for the American airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq[3]
250 Syrian soldiers | M  | Syrian  | August 27–28, 2014  | Tabqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Revenge against the Syrian regime
Sgt. Ali al-Sayyed | M  | Lebanese | August 28, 2014 | Arsal, Lebanon | Beheading  | To send a message to Lebanon[4]
Unnamed Peshmerga soldier  | M  | Kurdish | August 29, 2014 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading  | To send a message to the Peshmerga
Steven Joel Sotloff | M  | Israeli-American | September 2, 2014 | Badiya, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom and continued American airstrikes against the Islamic

State

Sol. Abbas Medlej | M  | Lebanese  | September 6, 2014 | Arsal, Lebanon  | Beheading and shooting  | Attempting to escape from Islamic State captors
David Cawthorne Haines | M  | British | September 13, 2014 | Badiya, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom and British airstrikes against the Islamic State
Samira Saleh Ali al-Naimi | F  | Iraqi  | September 22, 2014 | Mosul, Iraq  | Shooting  | Criticizing the destruction of mosques and ancient artifacts, as well as being an “apostate”
Hervé Gourdel | M  | French | September 24, 2014 | Tikjda, Algeria | Beheading  | French airstrikes against the Islamic State
Alan Henning | M  | British  | October 3, 2014 | Badiya, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom and the continued British airstrikes against the Islamic State
Sergei Gorbunov  | M  | Russian | October 25, 2014 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Failure to pay Ransom
Maj. Peter Edward Abdul-Rahman Kassig | M  | American  | November 16, 2014 | Dabiq, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom and the beginning of American airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria
21 Syrian soldiers  | M  | Syrian  | November 16, 2014 | Dabiq, Syria  | Beheading  | To send a message to the Syrian regime and Western nations
100 foreign Islamic State fighters  | ?  | ?  | December 2014 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading  | Deserting from the Islamic State and trying to escape Raqqa
1st LT. Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh | M  | Jordanian | January 3, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Immolation | Failure to pay Ransom and in retaliation for Jordanian involvement in “Crusader” airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria
Mamayev Jambulat Yesenjenovich  | M  | Kazakh | January 13, 2015 | Damascus, Syria  | Shooting  | Spying for Russian intelligence
Ashimov Sergey Nikolayevich  | M  | Kazakh  | January 13, 2015 | Damascus, Syria  | Shooting  | Spying for Russian intelligence
Haruna Yukawa | M  | Japanese | January 24, 2015 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom and to send a message to Japan
Sol. Hujam Surchi  | M  | Kurdish  | January 28, 2015 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading  | To send a message to the Peshmerga and Masoud Barzani
Kenji Goto | M  | Japanese  | January 31, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom and to send another message to Japan
10 alleged Egyptian spies  | M  | Egyptian | February 2015 | Sinai, Egypt | Beheading  | Alleged spying for the Mossad and the Egyptian army
Kayla Jean Mueller | F  | American  | February 6, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Unknown execution method, Islamic State claimed that she had been killed in a

Jordanian airstrike (proven wrong)

| Failure to pay Ransom
1 Ghanaian and 20 Coptic Christians | M  | Coptic Egyptian and Ghanaian | February 15, 2015 | Tripolitania, Libya | Beheading  | To send a message to the Christians and “Crusaders”, also to avenge

Camelia Shehata Zakher

Mohamed Sa’id Ismail Musallam  | M  | 48-Palestinian | March 10, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Alleged spying for Israel
3 Eritrean and 30 Ethiopian Christians  | M  | Ethiopian and Eritrean | April 19, 2015 | Cyrenaica, Libya and Fezzan, Libya  | Beheading and shooting  | To send another message to the Christians and “Crusaders”, also to avenge Muslims who

have been killed in U.S. led coalition airstrikes

Mahmud Abdul-Amir al-Khalaf  | M  | Iraqi  | June 17, 2015 | near the Tigris, Iraq  | Crucifixion and amputation | Spying for the Peshmerga
16 Iraqi spies  | M  | Iraqi  | June 23, 2015 | Mosul, Iraq  | RPG blast, drowning and

detonating cord

| Spying and giving away information about the Islamic State
Faisal Hussain al-Habib  | M  | Syrian  | July 6, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Participating in the activist group “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Bashir Abduladhim  | M  | Syrian  | July 6, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Participating in the activist group “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Rayif al-Abd  | M  | Syrian  | July 16, 2015 | Homs, Syria  | Beheading  | Fighting against the Islamic State under the Syrian army
10 Afghan spies  | M  | Afghan | August 9, 2015 | Nangarhar, Afghanistan | IED | Spying for the Taliban
Tomislav Salopek | M  | Croatian | August 12, 2015 | Sinai, Egypt  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom
Mohamed al-Mousa al-Jasim | M  | Syrian  | August 15, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Participating in the activist group “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Abdallah al-Khalaf al-Humaid al-Aydan  | M  | Syrian  | August 15, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Participating in the activist group “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Raqan Hud Awad  | M  | Syrian  | August 15, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Participating in the activist group “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”
Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad | M  | Syrian  | August 18, 2015 | Palmyra, Syria  | Beheading  | Protecting “idols” and being an “apostate”
4 Iraqi militiamen  | M  | Iraqi  | August 30, 2015 | Anbar, Iraq  | Immolation  | Revenge for Iraqi Soldiers and militiamen burning the corpses of

Sunni civilians

7 Peshmerga soldiers  | M  | Kurdish  | September 30, 2015 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading  | To send a message to the Peshmerga and the family members of the beheaded captives
Muhammad Tayib Ali al-Amri  | M  | Libyan | October 16, 2015 | Cyrenaica, Libya  | Shooting  | Spying for a “Western Awakening proxy”
Rushdi Ageela Omran al-Masouri  | M  | Libyan  | October 16, 2015 | Cyrenaica, Libya  | Dragging | Spying for a “Western Awakening proxy”
Fadi Ammar Zidan  | M  | Syrian  | October 24, 2015 | Homs, Syria  | Crushing | Revenge for Fadi running over the corpses of Islamic State fighters with a tank
Fan Jinghui | M  | Chinese | November 18, 2015 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Shooting  | Failure to pay Ransom
Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad  | M  | Norwegian | November 18, 2015 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Shooting  | Failure to pay Ransom
Khasiev Magomed  | M  | Russian  | December 2, 2015 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading  | Alleged spying for Russia
25 Houthi soldiers  | M  | Yemeni | December 4, 2015 | Aden Abyan, Yemen | Beheading and various explosives | Revenge for Houthi attacks against the Islamic State
6 Syrian spies  | M  | Syrian  | December 4, 2015 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Beheading and shooting  | Alleged spying for Israel and America
Muadh Fayumi  | M  | Syrian  | December 11, 2015 | Damascus, Syria  | IED  | Being part of a “Western Awakening proxy”
Firas Qataf  | M  | Syrian  | December 11, 2015 | Damascus, Syria  | IED  | Being part of a “Western Awakening proxy”
Javatov Migitin Amirbekovich  | M  | Dagestani Russian  | December 24, 2015 | Dagestan, Russia  | Shooting  | Being a governor of Kakamakhi
Ibakov Shamil Bagauddinovich  | M  | Dagestani Russian  | December 24, 2015 | Dagestan, Russia  | Shooting  | Reporting an Islamic State member to authorities
5 Syrian collaborators with Britain  | M  | Syrian  | January 3, 2016 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Collaborating with Britain
6 Syrian collaborators with France  | M  | Syrian  | January 24, 2016 | Badiya, Syria  | Beheading and shooting  | Collaborating with France
Karim Hussein  | M  | Iraqi  | January 30, 2016 | Baiji, Iraq  | Beheading  | Being part of the Iraqi Shi’ite militia “Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq” and fighting against

the Islamic State alongside other Iraqi militias

5 Iraqi collaborators with France  | M  | Iraqi  | January 30, 2016 | Mosul, Iraq  | Shooting  | Collaborating with and spying for France
4 Peshmerga soldiers  | M  | Kurdish  | February 2, 2016 | Kirkuk, Iraq  | Beheading  | To send a message to the Peshmerga and America
Muhammad Abdul-Aziz Tabsho  | M  | Syrian  | February 5, 2016 | Aleppo, Syria  | Beheading  | Being an Imam of a “Western Awakening proxy”
300+ Iraqi soldiers, law enforcement officers and civil activists | ?  | Iraqi  | February 8, 2016 | Mosul, Iraq  | Firing squad | To send a message to Iraq
4 Syrian collaborators with America  | M  | Syrian  | February 11, 2016 | Raqqa, Syria  | Car bomb | Collaborating with America
8 Iraqi collaborators  | M  | Iraqi  | April 16, 2016 | Fallujah, Iraq  | Beheading, shooting and detonating cord  | Collaborating with Iraqi police and security forces, as well as spying
John Bramwell Ridsdel | M  | British-Canadian | April 25, 2016 | Sulu, Philippines | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom
3 Houthi soldiers  | M  | Yemeni  | May 19, 2016 | Aden Abyan, Yemen  | Beheading, shooting and stoning | To send a message to the Houthis and other factions in Yemen that are fighting against the Islamic State
Robert Ward Hall | M  | Canadian | June 13, 2016 | Sulu, Philippines  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom
5 Syrian collaborators  | M  | Syrian  | June 24, 2016 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Beheading, stabbing, strangulation and various explosives  | Collaborating with the Western coalition
5 Syrian collaborators Euphrates  | M  | Syrian  | June 28, 2016 | Abu Kamal, Syria  | Beheading  | Receiving help and training with American forces under the allegiance of “Western Awakening proxies”
Abdullah Aarf Abdul-Wahab Al-Jaheshi  | M  | Iraqi  | July 20, 2016 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading  | Collaborating with and spying for France
Muhannad Mahmud Junaidan Khalaf Al-Sabawi  | M  | Iraqi  | July 20, 2016 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading  | Collaborating with and spying for France
Samir Al-Hamad Majid  | M  | Iraqi  | August 14, 2016 | Diyala, Iraq  | Shooting  | To send a message to Iraq
6 Iraqi captives  | M  | Iraqi  | August 15, 2016 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading and shooting  | Graffiting anti Islamic State slogans and spying
15 Coalition collaborators  | M  | Syrian and Kurdish | August 25, 2016 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading and shooting  | Participating in the coalition against the Islamic State
Slaughterhouse massacre of 16 Syrians  | M  | Syrian  | September 12, 2016 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Exsanguination | Collaborating with the Western coalition
FCmdr. Ahmad Musa al-Hussein  | M  | Syrian  | September 19, 2016 | Aleppo, Syria  | Beheading and shooting with a mounted machine gun | Being part of a “Western Awakening proxy”
10 Iraqi captives  | M  | Iraqi  | October 13, 2016 | Mosul, Iraq  | Shooting  | Graffiting anti Islamic State slogans and collaborating against the Islamic State
4 Syrian spies  | M  | Syrian  | October 25, 2016 | Raqqa, Syria  | Crucifixion, shooting and stabbing  | Spying for the Western coalition
300 Iraqi civilians | ?  | Iraqi  | October 28-November 7, 2016  | Mosul, Iraq  | Unknown execution method  | Refusing to join and fight for the Islamic State
3 Syrian collaborators  | M  | Syrian  | November 1, 2016 | Abu Kamal, Syria  | Beheading and shooting with a vehicle mounted anti-aircraft gun | Being part of a “Western Awakening proxy”
2 Iraqi spies  | M  | Iraqi  | November 14, 2016 | near the Euphrates, Iraq  | Shooting with a machine gun  | Spying for Iraq
5 Syrian collaborators Damascus  | M  | Syrian  | December 6, 2016 | Damascus, Syria  | Beheading  | Training with American and Jordanian forces under the allegiance of “Western Awakening

proxies”

Pvt. Sefter Taş | M  | Turkish | December 22, 2016 | Aleppo, Syria  | Immolation  | Turkish airstrikes against the Islamic State
Pvt. Fethi Şahin | M  | Turkish  | December 22, 2016 | Aleppo, Syria  | Immolation  | Turkish airstrikes against the Islamic State
6 Syrian combatants  | M  | Syrian  | December 28, 2016 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting and throwing | Being part of or spying for multiple factions that were fighting against the Islamic State in Syria
‘Umar Tariq Mahmud Mustafa at-Tai  | M  | Iraqi  | January 4, 2017 | Mosul, Iraq  | Beheading  | Collaborating with and giving away information about the Islamic State to the Chief of Staff in the

Iraqi army during the Battle of Mosul

Adnan Hadi Muhammad ‘Ali “Seymour”  | M  | Iraqi  | January 4, 2017 | Mosul, Iraq  | Drowning  | Collaborating with and giving away information about the Islamic State to Iraqi soldiers, militiamen

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

3 PKK spies  | M  | Syrian and Iraqi  | January 7, 2017 | Deir ez-Zor, Syria  | Beheading and shooting  | Spying for the PKK
2 PKK spies  | M  | Syrian  | January 24, 2017 | Raqqa, Syria  | Exsanguination  | Spying for the PKK during the Battle of Raqqa
Jürgen Gustav Kantner | M  | German | February 27, 2017 | Sulu, Philippines  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom
1LT. Abbas Yassin al-Daraji “Abu Bakir al-Samarayi”  | M  | Iraqi  | March 28, 2017 | Ar-Rutba, Iraq  | Beheading  | To send a message to Iraq
4 PKK soldiers  | M  | Syrian  | April 19, 2017 | Raqqa, Syria  | Beheading  | Fighting against the Islamic State during the Battle of Raqqa
Cpt. Petrenko Evgeny Viktorovich  | M  | Russian  | May 8, 2017 | Badiya, Syria  | Beheading  | Being a Russian intelligence officer[5]
7 Syrian collaborators  | M  | Syrian  | June 18, 2017 | near the Jordan–Syria border, Syria  | Beheading and firing squad  | Collaborating with America and Jordan
Isa Ali Kinash  | M  | Syrian  | July 29, 2017 | Raqqa, Syria  | Shooting  | Betraying the Islamic State and collaborating with the YPG during the Battle of Raqqa
Mohsen Hojaji | M  | Iranian | August 10, 2017 | Iraqi-Syrian border, Iraq  | Beheading  | To send a message to Iran, “Rafidhis” (Shi’ite Muslims) and “Majusis” (Zoroastrians)
Umar Gul  | M  | Afghan  | November 29, 2017 | Jalalabad, Afghanistan  | Amputation and beheading  | Alleged spying for American and Pakistani intelligence agencies
Cpt. Raad Khalaf al-Hamadi  | M  | Iraqi  | December 22, 2017 | Anbar, Iraq  | Shooting with a machine gun  | To send a message to Iraq
Sol. Musaib Jasim al-Mitiri  | M  | Iraqi  | December 22, 2017 | Anbar, Iraq  | Shooting with a machine gun  | To send a message to Iraq
Musa Abu Zammat  | M  | Egyptian  | January 3, 2018 | Sinai, Egypt  | Shooting  | Smuggling weapons from Rafah to Gaza, as well as collaborating with Hamas and the al-Qassam Brigades
Muhannad Touqan Abu Ammar  | M  | Syrian Druze | August 2, 2018 | As-Suwayda, Syria  | Beheading  | Failure to pay Ransom
Louisa Vesterager Jespersen | F  | Danish | December 17, 2018 | Toubkal, Morocco | Beheading and stabbing  | Revenge for the Battle of Hajin
Maren Ueland | F  | Norwegian  | December 17, 2018 | Toubkal, Morocco  | Beheading and stabbing  | Revenge for the Battle of Hajin
Sgt. Christopher Omogbai  | M  | Nigerian | December 8, 2019 | Borno, Nigeria | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigerian soldiers and law enforcement
Sgt. Yakubu Bandi  | M  | Nigerian  | December 8, 2019 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigerian soldiers and law enforcement
Sgt. Yusuf Sulaiman  | M  | Nigerian  | December 8, 2019 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigerian soldiers and law enforcement
11 Nigerian Christians  | M  | Nigerian  | December 26, 2019 | Borno, Nigeria  | Beheading and shooting  | Revenge for the deaths of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir, also to send a message to Christians
Unnamed Nigerian Christian  | M  | Nigerian  | January 18, 2020 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigerian Christians
Sol. Dandulum Sanjaman Daniel  | M  | Chadian | April 25, 2020 | Mayo-Kebbi, Chad | Shooting  | To send a message to Chad
Insp. Johanah James  | M  | Nigerian  | June 11, 2020 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigeria
LCpl. Emannuel Oscar  | M  | Nigerian  | June 11, 2020 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigeria
5 Nigerian Christians  | M  | Nigerian  | December 29, 2020 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigerian Christians
11 Hazara Shi’ites | M  | Pakistani Hazara | January 3, 2021 | Machh, Pakistan | Exsanguination  | To persecute Hazaras and Shi’ite Muslims
Nabil Habashi Salama  | M  | Coptic Egyptian  | April 17, 2021 | Sinai, Egypt  | Shooting  | To send a message and warning to Coptic Christians in Egypt
2 Egyptian tribal fighters  | M  | Egyptian  | April 17, 2021 | Sinai, Egypt  | Shooting  | Fighting alongside the Egyptian army
20 Nigerian Christians  | M  | Nigerian  | May 10, 2022 | Borno, Nigeria  | Beheading and shooting  | Revenge for the deaths of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi and Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi, also to send a message to Christians
Sol. Mohammud Abdullahi  | M  | Nigerien | July 10, 2022 | Diffa, Niger | Shooting  | To send a message to the people of Diffa and Nigerien soldiers
4 Cameroonian Christians  | M  | Cameroonian | January 9, 2024 | Bargaram, Cameroon | Shooting  | Revenge for the Israeli assault and airstrikes in Gaza that started in 2023, also to send a message to Christians and Jews
Sol. Kali  | M  | Nigerian  | April 16, 2024 | Borno, Nigeria  | Shooting  | To send a message to Nigeria

## Military captives

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By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war[6] and over 1,000 civilians.[7][8][9] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base,[6] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more "missing")[10][11] and the Shaer gas field (200 Syrian soldiers shot).[12] ISIL was reported to have beheaded about 100 foreign fighters as deserters who tried to leave Raqqa.[13]

* Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot whose F-16 fighter aircraft crashed near Raqqa, Syria, on 24 December 2014 during the international military intervention against ISIL, was captured by ISIL, and on 3 February 2015 released a video showing al-Kasasbeh being burned to death while trapped inside a cage.[14]
* On 22 December 2016, ISIL has released a video showing two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive.[15]

## Civilian captives

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Among the known killings of religious and minority group civilians carried out by ISIL are those in the villages and towns of Qiiniyeh (70–90 Yazidis killed), Hardan (60 Yazidis killed), Sinjar (200–500 Yazidis killed), Ramadi Jabal (60–70 Yazidis killed), Dohula (50 Yazidis killed), Khana Sor (100 Yazidis killed), Hardan (250–300 Yazidis killed), al-Shamal (dozens of Yazidis killed), Kocho (400 Yazidis killed and 1,000 abducted), Jadala (14 Yadizis killed)[16] and Beshir (700 Shia Turkmen killed),[citation needed] and others committed near Mosul (670 Shia inmates of the Badush prison killed),[citation needed] and in Tal Afar prison, Iraq (205 Yazidis killed for refusing conversion).[16]

### Journalists

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ISIL has tortured and murdered both local and foreign journalists,[17][18] creating what Reporters Without Borders calls "news blackholes" in areas controlled by ISIL. ISIL fighters have reportedly been given written directions to kill or capture journalists.[19]

* James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 - c. August 19, 2014) was an American freelance journalist and photojournalist of the Syrian Civil War when he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. Foley was the first American citizen to be killed by "Jihadi John".[20] James Foley's beheading by ISIL received wide condemnation in the United States.
* Steven Joel Sotloff (May 11, 1983 – c. September 2, 2014) was an Israeli-American[21] journalist for Time magazine and The Jerusalem Post, although the Post disavowed any relationship once Sotloff's life was threatened. In 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and was held captive by Islamic militants. On September 2, 2014, a video was released purporting to show "Jihadi John" beheading Steven Sotloff.[22][23]
* On January 8, 2015, ISIL members in Libya claimed to have executed Tunisian journalists Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari who disappeared in September 2014.[24]
* In January 2015 ISIL threatened to kill two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto Jogo, a journalist, and Haruna Yukawa (湯川遥菜), a military company operator, unless a ransom of 200 million USD is paid. By the end of the month, the group released another video of the beheading of Goto, in which Jihadi John proclaimed to Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe "because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin."[25]

### Aid workers

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ISIL has also murdered aid workers.

* David Haines (May 9, 1970 – c. September 13, 2014) was abducted in March 2013 by ISIL while working in Syria for the humanitarian aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development assessing the Atmeh refugee camp near the Turkish border and the Syrian province of Idlib.[26][27] A video of the lead-up and aftermath of David Haines' beheading, entitled "A Message to the Allies of America", was released by ISIL on September 13, 2014.[28]
* Hervé Gourdel (September 12, 1959 – c. September 24, 2014) was a French citizen and mountaineering guide.[29] Gourdel was kidnapped on September 21, 2014, while hiking in the Djurdjura National Park in Algeria.[citation needed] The following day, an at the time recently formed ISIL affiliate in Algeria, Jund al-Khilafah, released a video which showed Hervé Gourdel being held hostage. The group threatened to kill Gourdel if the French government continued to conduct airstrikes against ISIL. On September 24, they carried through on threats to behead him after a 24-hour deadline passed.[30] The beheading was captured in a video titled "A Message of Blood for French Government."[31][32]
* Alan Henning (August 15, 1967 – c. October 3, 2014) was a British humanitarian aid worker.[33] Henning was the fourth Western hostage killed by ISIL. Henning was captured during ISIL's occupation of the Syrian city of Al-Dana in December 2013, where he was helping with humanitarian relief.[34] The British Foreign Office withheld news of Henning's capture while they attempted to negotiate his release. Alan Henning was shown at the end of David Haines's beheading video, released on September 13, 2014, and referred to by "Jihadi John" as the next victim.[35][36] A video of Henning's beheading was released by ISIL on October 3, 2014.[33]
* Peter Edward Kassig (February 19, 1988 – 2014),[37] also known by the name Abdul-Rahman Kassig which he assumed in captivity, was 26 years old at the time he was beheaded.[38] He was the adopted child of Ed, a school teacher, and Paula Kassig, a nurse.[39][40][41][42][43][44] On October 1, 2013, as he was on his way to Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria to deliver food and medical supplies to refugees, Kassig was taken captive by ISIL.[45][46] While in captivity, Kassig – formerly a Methodist – converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, sometime between October and December 2013.[47][48] On October 3, 2014, his parents released a video in which they stressed that his conversion to Islam was not forced, and that his path to conversion began before he was taken captive.[47] On November 16, 2014, ISIL posted a video showing "Jihadi John" standing over a severed human head.[49] The beheading itself was not shown in the video. The White House later confirmed the person killed was Kassig.[50]
* ISIL claimed that U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller was killed in the Jordanian airstrike on Raqqa on 5 February 2015. However, some experts believe that she may have been killed before the date of the video's release, in order for ISIL to try to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Jordan by blaming her death on the Jordanian airstrikes.[51][52][53] Shortly thereafter President Obama confirmed the death of Mueller by ISIL.[51][54][55][56]
* On November 19, 2015, Chinese national Fan Jinghui (樊京辉[57]) and Norwegian national Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad were murdered by being shot by ISIL, and pictures were released in ISIL's magazine Dabiq.[58][59][60]

## See also

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* ISIL beheading incidents
* Mass executions in Islamic State-occupied Mosul
* Genocide of Christians by the Islamic State
* Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
* Persecution of Shias by ISIL
* Abu Azrael

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Islamic State

Names of the Islamic State

Members
(List of leaders)|

| Current|

* Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
* Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari
* Abdul Qadir Mumin
* Abu Fatima al-Jaheishi
* Abu Yusaf
* Abu al-Baraa el-Azdi
* Abu Habib al-Libi
* Abu Jandal al-Masri
* Zulfi Hoxha
* Bajro Ikanović
* Faysal Ahmad Ali al-Zahrani
* Fatiha Mejjati
* Ahlam al-Nasr
* Issam Abuanza
* Musa Baluku

|

† Former|

* Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
* Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
* Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
* Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi
* Abu Ahmad al-Alwani
* Haji Bakr
* Abu Usamah al-Maghrebi
* Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi
* Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi
* Abdul Rauf Aliza
* Abu Sayyaf
* Ali Awni al-Harzi
* Tariq al-Harzi
* Abu Khattab al-Tunisi
* Maher Meshaal
* Abu Muslim al-Turkmani
* Abu Saleh
* Mohammed Emwazi
* Abu Nabil al-Anbari
* Abu Ali al-Anbari
* Abu Waheeb
* Ali Aswad al-Jiburi
* Abu Omar al-Shishani
* El-Hassen Ould Khalill Jouleibib
* Abu Mohammad al-Adnani
* Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi
* Abu Muhammad al-Furqan
* Abu Jandal al-Kuwaiti
* Abu Bilal al-Harbi
* Ahmad Abousamra
* Turki al-Binali
* Tareq Kamleh
* Lavdrim Muhaxheri
* Abu Osama al-Masri
* Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir
* Abu Muhammad al-Shimali
* Gulmurod Khalimov
* Abdul Nasser Qardash (captured)
* Abu Yasser al-Issawi
* Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi
* Abu Hamza Al-Qurashi
* Yusuf al-Hindi
* Abu Omar al-Muhajir (captured)
* Othman al-Nazih
* Jamal Udeen Al-Harith
* Aine Davis (captured)
* Alexanda Kotey (captured)
* El Shafee Elsheikh (captured)
* Denis Cuspert
* Abdelhamid Abaaoud
* Boubaker El Hakim

History|

* Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (1999–2004)
* Al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004–2006)
* Mujahideen Shura Council (2006)
* Islamic State of Iraq (2006–2013)
* Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (2013–2014)
* Islamic State (2014–present)

Timeline of events|

* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024

Groups|

| International branches|

* Khorasan Province (Afghanistan and Pakistan)
* Libyan Provinces (Libya)
* Caucasus Province (North Caucasus, Russia)
* Sinai Province (Sinai, Egypt)
* Algeria Province (Algeria)
* Yemen Province (Yemen)
* Abnaa ul-Khilafah (Somalia and Somaliland)
* Bengal Province (Bangladesh)
* Boko Haram (Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Mali) (2015–2016)
* West Africa Province (Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger)
* Central Africa Province (DR Congo and Uganda)
* Sahil Province (Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso)
* Hind Province (India)
* Pakistan Province (Pakistan)
* Turkey Province (Turkey)
* Azerbaijan Province (Azerbaijan)
* Mozambique Province (Mozambique)
* Khalid ibn al-Walid Army (Syria) (2016–2018)
* Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade (Gaza)
* Abu Sayyaf (Philippines) (2014–2024)
* Ansar Khalifa (Philippines) (2014–2021)
* Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil (Brazil) (2016–2018)
* East Indonesia Mujahideen (Indonesia) (2014–2022)

|

Unorganized cells|

* Jammu and Kashmir Province (Jammu and Kashmir)
* Kurdistan Province (Kurdistan)
* Haramayn Province (Saudi Arabia and Bahrain)
* Lebanon Province (Lebanon)
* Jund al Khilafah in Tunisia (Tunisia)
* Brussels Islamic State terror cell (Belgium)

Wars|

* War on terror
* Iraq War
* Insurgency (2003–2011)
* Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
* Insurgency (2011–2013)
* War in Iraq (2013–2017)
* Insurgency (2017–present)
* Syrian civil war
* Spillover
* Spillover in Lebanon
* Opposition–Islamic State conflict
* Sinai insurgency
* Second Libyan Civil War
* Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
* Mozambique
* Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
* Mali War
* War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
* Conflict with Taliban
* Moro conflict (1968–2019)
* al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
* Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
* Boko Haram insurgency
* Military intervention against IS
* US intervention in Iraq
* US intervention in Syria
* Russian intervention in Syria
* Turkish operation
* Somalia

Battles|

| 2013|

* Akashat
* Hawija
* Raqqa
* Al-Shabah
* Ras al-Ayn
* Tell Abyad
* Latakia
* Menagh
* Sidi Ali Ben Aoun
* Sadad
* Qalamoun
* Aleppo
* Al-Yaarubiyah
* Tell Hamis and Tell Brak
* Anbar

|

2014|

* Fallujah
* N Aleppo
* Markada
* N Iraq (Jun)
* Mosul
* Salahuddin
* Baiji (Jun)
* Tikrit
* N Iraq (Aug)
* Kobanî
* Sinjar (Aug)
* Derna
* Ramadi
* Deir ez-Zor
* Baiji (14–15)
* Sinjar (Dec)
* Zumar
* Amirli

2015|

* Nofaliya
* W Africa
* Egyptian airstrikes in Libya
* Niger raid
* E al-Hasakah
* Tikrit
* Sirte
* Hama & Homs (Mar–Apr)
* Sarrin (Mar–Apr)
* Yarmouk
* Qalamoun
* Palmyra (May)
* W al-Hasakah
* Al-Hasakah city
* Tell Abyad
* Sarrin (Jun–Jul)
* Al-Hasakah
* Kobani
* Palmyra (Jul–Aug)
* Ramadi (15–16)
* Al-Qaryatayn
* Al-Hawl
* Homs (Nov–Dec)
* Sinjar
* E Aleppo (15–16)
* Niveneh Plains
* Tishrin Dam

2016|

* Deir ez-Zor (Jan)
* Fallujah (Feb–May)
* Nangarhar
* Ben Guerdane
* Ithriyah-Raqqa (Feb–Mar)
* Al-Shaddadi
* Khanasir
* Al-Qaryatayn (Mar–Apr)
* Palmyra (Mar)
* N Aleppo (Mar–Jun)
* Hīt
* Tipo-Tipo
* Sirte
* Ar-Rutbah
* N Raqqa
* Fallujah (May–Jun)
* Manbij
* Ithriyah-Raqqa (Jun)
* Abu Kamal
* al-Rai (Aug)
* N al-Bab (Sep)
* W al-Bab (Sep)
* Dabiq
* W al-Bab (Oct–Nov)
* Al-Bab
* Aleppo
* Palmyra

2017|

* Mosul (16–17)
* Raqqa (16–17)
* Palmyra
* Deir ez-Zor (Jan–Feb)
* E Aleppo (Jan–Apr)
* E Homs
* Hama
* W Nineveh
* Tabqa
* Syrian Desert (Dec 16–Apr 17)
* Syrian Desert (May–Jul)
* Maskanah
* Marawi
* Raqqa
* S Raqqa
* C Syria
* Tal Afar
* Deir ez-Zor (17–19)
* Hawija
* E Syria (Sep–Dec)
* NW Syria (Oct 17–Feb 18)
* Abu Kamal
* W Iraq

2018|

* As-Suwayda (Jun)
* S Syria
* As-Suwayda (Aug–Nov)

2019|

* Hajin
* Baghuz Fawqani
* Barisha raid

2020|

* Chinagodrar
* Danag
* Mocímboa da Praia
* Al Bayda

2021|

* Tessit
* Palma
* Sambisa
* Dangarous

2022|

* Al-Hasakah
* Atme raid
* Andéramboukane
* Talataye

2023|

* Falagountou

Attacks|

| 2014|

* Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting
* Camp Speicher massacre
* Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming

|

2015|

* Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
* Beheading of Copts in Libya
* Corinthia Hotel
* Al Qubbah bombings
* Bardo National Museum
* Sanaa bombings (Mar)
* Jalalabad bombing
* Curtis Culwell Center
* Qatif & Dammam bombings
* 26 June
* Kobanî massacre
* Saint-Quentin-Fallavier
* Kuwait mosque bombing
* Sousse
* Khan Bani Saad bombing
* Suruç bombing
* Baghdad bombing (Aug)
* Sanaa bombing (Sep)
* Ankara bombings
* Saihat shooting
* Metrojet Flight 9268
* Beirut bombings
* Paris (Nov)
* Tunis bombing
* San Bernardino attack
* Qamishli bombings

2016|

* Zliten truck bombing
* Hurghada
* Istanbul bombing (Jan)
* Jakarta
* Ramadi bombing
* Mahasin mosque
* Sayyidah Zaynab (Jan)
* Mosul massacre
* Homs bombings (Feb)
* Sayyidah Zaynab bombings (Feb)
* Baghdad bombings (Feb)
* Istanbul bombing (Mar)
* Brussels bombings
* Aden bombing
* Iskandariya bombing
* Baghdad bombing (Apr)
* Samawa bombing
* Gaziantep bombing (May)
* Baghdad bombings (11 May)
* Real Madrid fan club massacres
* Baghdad gas plant
* Yemen police bombings (15 May)
* Baghdad bombings (17 May)
* Jableh & Tartous bombings (May)
* Yemen bombings (23 May)
* Aktobe shootings
* Pulse nightclub shooting
* Magnanville stabbing
* Mukalla (Jun)
* Movida Bar
* Atatürk Airport
* Dhaka (Jul)
* Karrada bombing
* Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi Mausoleum
* Nice truck
* Würzburg train
* Kabul bombing (Jul)
* Ansbach bombing
* Normandy church
* Qamishli bombings (Jul)
* Charleroi stabbing
* Shchelkovo Highway police station
* Aden bombing (Aug)
* Syria bombings (5 Sep)
* Baghdad bombings (9 Sep)
* Baghdad bombings (Oct)
* Quetta police college
* Hamam al-Alil massacre
* Khuzdar bombing
* Samarinda bombing
* Hillah bombing (Nov)
* Aden bombings (Dec)
* Botroseya bombing
* Al-Karak
* Berlin truck
* Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin
* Baghdad bombings (Dec)

2017|

* Istanbul nightclub shooting
* Baghdad bombings (2 Jan)
* Azaz bombing (Jan)
* Sehwan bombing
* Kabul (Mar)
* Westminster
* St Petersburg Metro bombing
* Egypt church bombings
* Mastung bombing
* Manchester Arena bombing
* Jakarta bombings
* Minya
* Al-Faqma bombing
* London Bridge
* Brighton siege
* Tehran
* Pakistan attacks (Jun)
* Hurghada
* Quetta bombing (Aug)
* Barcelona
* Brussels (Aug)
* Nasiriyah
* Afghanistan (20 Oct)
* New York City truck
* Sinai mosque
* Kabul bombing (28 Dec)
* Saint Menas church

2018|

* Baghdad bombings
* Save The Children Jalalabad
* Kizlyar church shooting
* Kabul bombing (Mar)
* Carcasonne & Trèbes
* Kabul bombing (22 Apr)
* Kabul bombings (30 Apr)
* Tripoli
* Mako Brimob standoff
* Paris knife
* Surabaya bombings
* Liège
* Jalalabad bombing (Jul)
* Mastung & Bannu bombings
* Quetta bombing
* As-Suwayda
* Tajikistan attack
* Kabul (Sep)
* Ahvaz military parade
* Minya bus
* Melbourne stabbing
* Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland

2019|

* Jolo Cathedral bombings
* Sri Lanka Easter bombings
* Sainthamaruthu shootout
* Kabul bombing (17 Aug)

2020|

* Kabul shooting (6 Mar)
* Kabul gurdwara
* Xitaxi
* Afghanistan (May)
* Jalalabad prison
* Jolo bombings
* Kabul University
* Vienna
* Afghanistan (Dec)

2021|

* Machh
* January Baghdad bombings
* Kabul school bombing
* Kabul airport
* Kunduz bombing
* Kandahar bombing
* Kampala bombings
* Kabul hospital

2022|

* Diyala massacre
* Peshawar mosque
* Hadera shooting
* Mazar-i-Sharif mosque bombing
* Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings
* Bourasso and Namissiguima
* Kuje prison break
* 5 August Kabul bombing
* August Kabul mosque bombing
* Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul
* Shah Cheragh
* Kabul hotel

2023|

* Kabul airport bombing
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan bombing
* Al-Sukhnah
* Hama
* Khar bombing
* Arras school stabbing
* Pul-i-Khumri bombing
* Brussels shooting
* Kabul bombing (Nov)
* Paris
* Mindanao State University bombing

2024|

* Kerman bombings
* Istanbul church shooting
* Balochistan bombings
* Sibi bombing
* Mucojo attack
* Karabulak clash
* Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing
* Tillabéri attack
* Crocus City Hall attack
* 2024 Guzara Attack
* 2024 Bamyan shooting
* 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting
* Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center hostage crisis
* 2024 Dagestan attacks
* 2024 attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade
* 2024 Muscat mosque shooting
* 2024 Kabul bus bombing
* Surovikino penal colony hostage crisis
* 2024 Solingen stabbing
* 2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
* 2024 Afghanistan bus shooting

2025|

* 2025 New Orleans truck attack

Politics and organization|

* Finances
* Ideology
* Medicare
* Military
* Armoured warfare
* Human rights
* Genocide of Christians
* Persecution of Shias
* Genocide of Yazidis
* Genocide of Turkmen
* Persecution of gay and bisexual men
* Killing of captives
* Beheading incidents
* Destruction of cultural heritage
* Occupation of Mosul
* Executions in Mosul

Relations|

* Iran and the Islamic State
* Philippines and the Islamic State
* United Kingdom and the Islamic State
* Trinidad and Tobago and the Islamic State
* Foreign fighters
* Name changes due to the Islamic State
* Portrayal of the Islamic State in American media
* Connection with Saddam Regime and Baath Party

Society|

* Members
* Terrorist cell in Brussels
* Territorial claims
* al-Barakah district
* Collaboration

Media|

* A Second Message to America
* Al-Bayan
* Al-Fatihin
* Al-Furat Media Center
* Al-Hayat Media Center
* Al-Naba
* Amaq News Agency
* Dar al-Islam
* Dabiq
* Dawlat al-Islam Qamat
* Flames of War: The Fighting Has Just Begun
* Huroof
* I'lam foundation
* Istok
* Konstantiniyye
* Rumiyah
* Salil al-Sawarim

Related topics|

* Defeating ISIS
* ISIS-chan
* Islamism
* Millenarianism
* Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency
* Shia–Sunni relations
* Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
* Theocracy

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