Islamic State threatens to behead Barack Obama, transform America into a Muslim province

In yet another video portraying its ugly propaganda, the ISIS has threatened to behead US President Barack Obama at the White House, claim media reports. The video features a jihadist standing above a captured Kurdish soldier and threatening to transform the United States of America into a "Muslim Province."

"This is the fate of anyone who opposes Islam. Know, oh Obama, that we will reach America. Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House and transform America into a Muslim province," the ISIS fighter has said in the video.

"And this is my message to France and its sister, Belgium. We advise you that we will come to you with car bombs and explosive charges and we will cut off your heads."

The footage, entitled "Bombardment of Peaceful Muslims in the City of Mosul" showed damage from shelling allegedly carried out by Peshmerga forces in the Iraqi city. The fighter then beheads the captive in the video with a knife to cheers from the gathered crowd, threatening to send Kurdish president Masoud Barzani a soldier's head for every missile the Peshmerga launch.

The masked Isis fighter in the video has also threatened attacks on the US, France, Belgium and the Kurds, claiming that the group's followers will kill the American and Kurdish presidents as well as detonate car bombs and explosives in European countries that are part of the international coalition fighting against it.

Isis, which has overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria, has made a number of similar statements since a US-led coalition mounted air strikes against its fighters in 2014 and frequently uses beheading videos as a platform for its propaganda.

As well as the filmed murders of foreign hostages James Foley, David Haines, Alan Henning and most recently, Japanese aid worker Haruna Yukawa, public beheadings have become commonplace in its territories where death is the penalty for numerous unproved "crimes".

The video threatening Obama was released by Isis on Monday, two days after heavy Peshmerga shelling and coalition air strikes were reported in its stronghold of Mosul.