British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held prisoner by the Islamic State group, appeared in a new video released on Saturday supposedly filmed in the jihadists’ Iraqi stronghold of Mosul.
In the latest instalment in a series of propaganda videos released by IS, Cantlie speaks to the camera in the style of a news report.
It is unclear when it was shot but Cantlie last appeared in an IS video in early 2015.
In Saturday’s video, a gaunt-looking Cantlie says he is in Mosul, IS’ main city in northern Iraq.
Dressed in black and squinting in the sunshine, he is seen standing in front of a metal shack he describes as a media kiosk that distributes IS pamphlets, which was destroyed in an air strike by a US-led coalition.
Speaking in English with Arabic subtitles, as in previous clips of the same style, Cantlie criticises and derides the US-led campaign launched in 2014 against IS.
He was kidnapped along with journalist James Foley in November 2012 in Syria while covering the war there.
{{/usCountry}}He was kidnapped along with journalist James Foley in November 2012 in Syria while covering the war there.
{{/usCountry}}Foley then became the first of several hostages to be slain by the jihadists.
Media rights watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has condemned IS for its “cowardly” use of a hostage in a forced role to push the jihadists’ propaganda.