( CNN ) ISIS has released a new propaganda video showing what appears to be Kurdish Peshmerga fighters paraded down Iraqi streets in cages . The video features a man saying the Peshmerga soldiers were captured by ISIS . CNN can not independently verify the authenticity of the video . But it shows at least 21 men in orange outfits hauled in the cages atop the beds of pickup trucks . A man with a microphone bearing the ISIS logo interviews some of the captives , who say they are Peshmerga soldiers . Most of those interviewed say they are from Kirkuk . The prisoners , under duress , call on their fellow Peshmerga soldiers to give up their fight against ISIS . The video also features superimposed bios for each prisoner . One captive is described as an officer for the Iraqi army . The heavily edited footage also includes flashing clips of the recent beheadings of Christian Egyptians in Libya . It 's not clear what happened to those in the video . The last scene shows them alive . But a man in the video gives an ominous warning . `` We say to the Peshmerga : Leave your jobs , or your fate will be like these , either the cage , or under the ground , '' he says in Kurdish . The Peshmerga are armed forces protecting Kurdistan , a semiautonomous region in northern Iraq . The fighters opposed Saddam Hussein 's regime and supported the United States in Operation Iraqi Freedom . In recent months , the Peshmerga have been battling ISIS as the terror group tries to establish a radical Islamic state across parts of Iraq and Syria . Correction : An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the video released by ISIS . While the video shows that the caged prisoners are threatened with execution , they are shown alive at the end of the video . CNN 's Ben Wedeman and Kareem Khadder contributed to this report .
It 's not clear what happened to the other soldiers in the video . The last scene in the video shows them alive .