article_snippet: After an elderly man uses a microphone to read to the crowd from an elderly man notes, Masked jihadi executioner then steps forward with the blade poised above the men's heads in a northern city of Iraq.
article_snippet: Masked jihadi executioner stands with the sword poised above the man's head as a large crowd gathers to watch .
article_snippet: The beheading appears to take place at a traffic roundabout in northern Iraq's Nineveh province .
article_snippet: One of the blindfolded victims kneels with an elderly man head forward immediately prior to The beheading.
article_snippet: The jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, has carried out hundreds of barbaric executions as barbaric executions has imposed barbaric executions brutal version of Islamic law, many of which are photographed or videotaped.
article_snippet: The photos were said to have been taken in Nineveh province - the first to fall to a sweeping IS-led offensive last June - but the exact location was not specified.
article_snippet: The stomach-churning photographs usually show a blindfolded victim being dragged to the top of a building by black-masked militants.
article_snippet: As crowds gather at street level Many young men are thrown to Many young men death, while jihadis and members of the public use mobile phones to film the gruesome murders.
article_snippet: A crowd gathers around the outskirts of the traffic roundabout to view the bloody spectacle .
article_snippet: Images of the bloodthirsty group's latest execution come amid claims a former member of ISIS claimed a former member of ISIS witnessed the British graduate dubbed Jihadi John behead a Japanese hostage.
article_snippet: The man, named only as Saleh, said the masked militant who appears in several beheading videos was a senior figure in the extremist organisation responsible for murdering foreign captives.
article_snippet: Jihadi John, who was recently unmasked as 26-year-old Londoner Mohammed Emwazi, was last seen in a video posted online which appeared to show Japanese hostage Kenji Goto lying dead.
article_snippet: Saleh, who worked as a translator, also revealed that ISIS routinely subjected hostages to mock executions so that when their beheading did finally come their were not expecting to die, according to Sky News.
highlights_snippet: Masked jihadi executioner is filmed standing over men with huge sword .
  
highlights_snippet: Chilling images show men with huge sword bent over at public site awaiting men with huge sword death .
  
highlights_snippet: ISIS militants claimed the three were executed in a northern city of Iraq .