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A captured ISIS terrorist was suspended over a fire, burned to death and then sliced up like a KEBAB by a rebel fighter nicknamed the 'Angel of Death'.

Footage released online shows fearsome Abu Azrael, one of ISIS' most feared enemies and a poster boy for Shi'a militias, committed the sickening act as a warning to his enemies.

The hulking fighter laughs as he cuts the dead ISIS terrorists leg with a curved sword, then turns to the camera and says: "ISIS this will be your fate, we will cut you like shawarma (a method of grilling meat on a spit and then shaving it off)".

The footage was reportedly taken in the Iraqi city of Baiji.

Azrael is a commander with the the Imam Ali brigade, an Iraqi Shi’a militia group sponsored by Iran.

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He is believed to be a 40-year-old former university lecturer who left his home to fight ISIS last June.

Pictures show the bald fighter in his military fatigues, posing with an axe and a heavy machine gun.

His mercilessness - combined with a grim sense of humour - has gained him thousands of fans on social media, as well as the ominous nickname 'Abu Azrael'.

He wields an axe, a sword and an assault rifle and told news agency AFP that he has been a soldier for a long time, having battled US forces during the invasion of Iraq.

The father-of-five added: "You see me go to school to drop off my children and I am peaceful.

"But I show another face to them (ISIS).”

(Image: Getty)

The militia he fights for uses pictures and video of him to gain support on social media.

He has been photographed jauntily riding a bike, reportedly in an area of intense fighting, while another still shows him grinning, arm casually draped across the cannon of an attack helicopter.

One video shows him mocking ISIS fighters with their own walkie-talkie, most likely taken from a dead soldier.

Al-Alam, a state owned Arabic-language TV station in Iran, reported that he used to be a university PE teacher.

However, the BBC, citing sources in the country, reported that he is actually a highly-trained special forces veteran.