A British photojournalist held captive by the Islamic State appeared in a new militant video on Saturday more than two years after he was kidnapped in Syria.

John Cantlie, 43, plays the role of TV correspondent in the video walking around Mosul in what appears to be an attempt by the militants to show that life is "business as usual" in the ISIS-controlled city in northern Iraq.

ISIS captive John Cantlie appears overlooking Mosul, Iraq, in a video that was posted to YouTube on January 3, 2015. Image: Militant video

"This is not a city living in fear as Western media would have you believe," Cantlie says in the chilling video. "This is a normal city going about its business."

The SITE Intel Group, which monitors jihadist groups, says the roughly 8-minute video was produced by the Islamic State's foreign language division and distributed on Twitter and jihadi forums on Saturday.

ISIS captive John Cantlie appears in new video riding a motorcycle through the streets of Mosul, Iraq, on January 3, 2015.

In the new video, Cantlie, appearing healthier and less gaunt than he had in previous militant videos, drives a car through Mosul's streets, strolls through a seemingly busy market, drives a police motorcycle — complete with a smiling militant on his back — and visits what he says is Mosul's hospital.

ISIS captive John Cantlie appears walking through a market in Mosul, Iraq, in a video posted on YouTube on January 3, 2015.

He disputes an October article by the Guardian that reported conditions inside Mosul had "dramatically deteriorated," citing a lack of food, water, functioning public institutions and a local economy "in a state of near collapse," suggesting the video was filmed sometime after late October.

At one point, with the camera focused on a plane flying overhead, Cantlie yells, "Down here! Over here! Drop a bomb! Try and rescue me again! Do something! Useless. Absolutely useless."

ISIS captive John Cantlie yells at a plane flying above Mosul, Iraq in a new video released by the militant organization on January 3, 2015.

The video marks the eighth time Cantlie appeared in an ISIS video, which are targeted toward western audiences and often cite specific claims made by western media in the weeks or months before they are released. In the first, released in September 2014, Cantlie acknowledged he was a prisoner, but had "nothing to lose" as his life was in the hands of his kidnappers.

And in October, Cantlie appeared in Kobani, Syria, claiming on behalf of the militants that the embattled city was under its control.

The British photojournalist John Cantlie appears in a new Islamic State propaganda video released Oct. 27, 2014. Image: Militant video

Analysts believe Cantlie is participating in the videos under duress.

U.S. special forces attempted to rescue Cantlie in a failed November raid. Ultimately, as Cantlie put it in a November video, "we weren't there."

Neither the U.S. nor the U.K. negotiates with jihadi groups who kidnap its citizens, as a matter of policy.

Mashable was unable to independently confirm the authenticity of the video, but it appears to be Cantlie and matches the production quality of other videos released by the Islamic State in recent months.