Peshmarga Forces Kill ISIL Militant Notorious for Beheading Captives

Kurdish Peshmarga fighters killed an ISIL militant notorious for his public beheadings in the town of Shingal, media report said.

Muadh Hamad al-Ris, 21, had appeared in numerous videos beheading captured Syrian and Iraqi soldiers, Rudaw reported.

His brother Muhammad Hamad al-Ris, another ISIL militant, was also believed to have been killed in Syria last month.

Al-Ris was a Saudi national who joined the ISIL terrorists in Syria along with 34 other men from the town of al-Tamir in Saudi Arabia.