Sentence examples for started beheading from inspiring English sources

But last August, when air strikes began in Iraq, IS started beheading American and British hostages.

He was the last Western hostage to be released before Isis started beheading his fellow captives, starting with Mr Foley before killing Steven Sotloff, David Haines, Mr Henning and Adbul-Rahman (Peter) Kassig.

After the Taliban killed him in a firefight last month, the militants demanded that his followers reveal his gravesite — and then started beheading people until they got the information, one Mandal Dag villager said.

The calculus changed when Isis started beheading westerners and posting atrocities online, and the Gulf states are now backing other groups in the Syrian war, such as the Nusra Front.

When jihadists took control of the Swat Valley and started beheading local opponents, the Taliban's advances made international headlines.

After ISIS started beheading Western hostages in the fall of 2014, social media platforms began to crack down on its presence.

"Right up to when the bombings started, the Islamists were beheading people in Konna," said Amadou Bocar Teguete, the vice-president of Mali's national commission for human rights.

Like an exasperated praying mantis after yet another beheading, he started to pay closer attention.

And the precision and routinized ease with which the fishermen start arranging and slicing and beheading the fish is mesmerizing.

And the precision and routinised ease with which the fishermen start arranging and slicing and beheading the fish is mesmerising.

Mr Winter said that as the world becomes desensitised to the group's beheading videos, which started last year, casting a child as executioner is attended as "powerful propaganda" to shock and draw attention.