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Heads on sticks: Sick ISIS video emerges showing 50 beheaded Syrian soldiers being impaled on poles and held aloft in Raqqa city Sunday August 10 th , 2014  at  12:44 PM News | Mail Online 1 Share WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Islamic State fighters, formerly called ISIS, have attacked base for two days Ambush in Raqqa, northern Syria, ended in more than 50 executions Amateur video footage circulating online shows dozens of headless bodies Syrian conflict has reportedly killed 170,000 and 3 million have fled country  By  Dan Bloom  and  Afp Reporter Published:  10:50 GMT, 27 July 2014  |  Updated:  22:04 GMT, 27 July 2014 5,654   shares Islamist militants have reportedly beheaded dozens of soldiers at a Syrian army base and mounted their heads on poles. Extremists from the group Islamic State, previously known as ISIS, seized the base in the northern province of Raqqa, leaving more than 85 soldiers dead and 200 more unaccounted