A chilling video showed a group of Taliban fighters beheading an Afghan soldier before celebrating and singing while holding the several of the victim by his hair.
The video, obtained by the Washington Examiner, was reportedly shared on a private Taliban chat room but it is not clear when it was recorded.
In the 30-second clip, the group of Taliban fighters can be heard chanting 'Mujahideen' as they parade the man's head around.
The Taliban shared a sickening video of six fighters chanting around the body of an Afghan solider as they carried his head by the hair. Pictured: A still from the harrowing clip
Six of the men were holding rifles and another was clutching on to two bloodied knives.
It is believed the man on the ground was an Afghan solider due to the colour of his dark green uniform - similar to that given to the national army by the US.
The man carrying the knives puts them in the air as they continue to chant Mujahideen - an Arabic term which refers to Muslims who fight on behalf of the faith or the Muslim community.
They then start shouting praise for the Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.
The video ends with the group stating they must shoot the Afghan soldiers because 'he has to look shot'.
The footage has emerged just days after Taliban militants executed the brother of one of the Afghan resistance fighters' leaders.
The Taliban fighters started shouting praise for the Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada (pictured)
The man was the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former Afghan vice president who became one of the leaders of anti-Taliban opposition forces in the Panjshir valley.
The news that Saleh's brother Rohullah Azizi was killed came days after Taliban forces took control of the provincial centre of Panjshir, the last province holding out against them after the took control of the rest of Afghanistan last month.
'They executed my uncle,' Ebadullah Saleh told Reuters in a text. 'They killed him yesterday and would not let us bury him. They kept saying his body should rot.'
The Urdu language account of the Taliban information service Alemarah said that 'according to reports' Rohullah Saleh was killed during fighting in Panjshir.
Saleh, a former head of the National Directorate of Security, the intelligence service of the Western-backed government that collapsed last month, is at large though his exact location remains unclear.
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, which groups opposition forces loyal to local leader Ahmad Massoud, has pledged to continue opposing the Taliban even after the fall of Panjshir's provincial capital Bazarak.
The man was the brother of Amrullah Saleh (pictured in 2019), the former Afghan vice president who became one of the leaders of anti-Taliban opposition forces in Panjshir Valley
The news of Rohullah Saleh's execution comes after the UN warned the Taliban have started carrying out 'reprisal killings'.
The UN envoy for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons said there had been 'credible allegations' of targeted killings 'despite the many statements granting general amnesties'.
She added Afghan security officials and people who worked for the previous administration were at risk.
The Taliban have been at pains to present a reformed image since sweeping to power on August 15, pledging a more moderate brand of rule.
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