ISIL threatened of beheading an Iraqi journalist whom they kidnapped because he refused to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday.

ISIL threatened of beheading an Iraqi journalist whom they kidnapped because he refused to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday.

Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi, a cameraman, was taken prisoner on September 7 in Samarra, a city around 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Baghdad, RSF said in a statement.

"The 'jihadist' organization has announced that it plans to carry out its decapitation threat because the journalist refused to work for ISIL," it added.

He joins a growing list of Iraqi journalists who have been captured or threatened by militants from ISIL, a radical terrorist group that has seized a swathe of Iraq and Syria and has committed widespread atrocities.