ISIS burns Jordanian pilot alive

ISIS claims to have burned alive a Jordanian pilot whose jet crashed during a mission to attack the terror group. Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, 26, was the first pilot to be captured from the U.S.-led coalition that began airstrikes on ISIS in September. He was taken into captivity in December when his Jordanian F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of ISIS-controlled territory.

Jordanian officials voted “punishment and revenge” in retaliation for al-Kaseasbeh’s death. At the tribal meeting place where the young pilot’s family gathered to wait for news, chants against Jordanian King Abdullah II broke out while his relatives wept.

ISIS had demanded Jordan trade Sajida al-Rishawi, an al-Qaeda detainee, for the pilot, and Jordan agreed—if it could get proof al-Kaseasbeh was alive. Al-Rishawi faces the death penalty in Jordan for her role in a 2005 hotel attack that killed 60 people.

Today ISIS released an online video, which has not yet been verified, of al-Kaseasbeh being burned to death. The alleged killing comes three days after another video purporting to show the beheading of Japanese journalist and Christian Kenji Goto. In the latest video, the militants made threats against other Jordanian pilots.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.