[kellyhound]

The Iraqi government is investigating a video that appears to show men in army uniforms throwing a pleading ISIS fighter off a cliff before shooting him.

In the video, the panicking man is taunted and beaten by several rifle-wielding troops before being slowly forced up to a precipice and hurled onto the motionless body of another man below.

The execution method is reminiscent of one employed by ISIS, which is notorious for killing people it decides are guilty of homosexuality by throwing them from high buildings.

An interior ministry spokesman said that if the video - purportedly filmed in recently-liberated Mosul - was genuine then the soldiers involved will be brought to justice.

There have been reports by human rights groups that some Iraqi government troops are guilty of torture and execution in the war against ISIS.

One man, Falah Aziz, claimed to have beheaded 50 ISIS fighters and stressed he was completely 'at ease' doing so.

The video of the man being thrown from the cliff comes just days after a US-backed coalition of Iraqi forces announced it had freed Mosul, the city in which ISIS proclaimed its caliphate in 2014.

Small-scale fighting is still going on inside the Old City, with an unknown number of ISIS troops - perhaps as many as hundreds - hiding out.

[JeremyJager]

Went looking for this vid after I heard about it on the fake news.

[Oswald2001]

I have NO sympathy for any ISIS members or supporters.

[denno_10inch]

:l augh:lau gh ISIS

[Gundulf747]

He who lets himself hangout with scum shall fly like dogs.....

Smr

[Carach Angren]

If he was indeed Isis I'd say good riddance!

[1/2Woman1/2Man]

For all the horrors ISIS commit, why shouldn't they go out like this

[TheUrinator]

Good riddance. Those soldiers should get medals.

[Monty2992]

Well done

[Terrr]

That wasn't a good action. I don't have any sympathy for ISIS, but they're just lowering themselves to their level