Departing from its gory beheadings of Westerners that have outraged the world, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a new video on Thursday featuring a British photojournalist who appears to be explaining the "truth" behind the terror group.

British press photographer John Cantlie appeared in the new ISIL video entitled "Lend Me Your Ears" where he claimed to have been abandoned by his government, pleading with them to change policies and negotiate with the terrorists as other governments have done.

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In the new propaganda video, the British photojournalists shows Cantlie dressed in a distinctive orange top seated behind a wooden desk in a darkened room.

He appeared to be targeting the war-weary West as he intoned the disasters of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that their political leaders are plunging them into another unwinnable war.

The lecture-style video marks a significant change in the ISIL's propaganda tactics, the Daily Mail reported.

Previous ISIL videos featured the horrific beheadings of two Americans and a British aid worker with warnings against the United States and the United Kingdom governments to "back off" from their involvement in the anti-ISIL fight.

Unlike in previous ISIL films, no explicit threats were made to Cantlie's life and no one else was featured.

The three-minute long video is previewed as the first in the series of videos that will offer "verifiable facts" about the extremist group.

The latest video was released a day after the U.S. House of Congress voted to authorize the fund for arming moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State that has seized Iraqi and Syrian territories Cantlie says are larger than Britain.

Cantlie was captured in November 2012 while covering the Syrian war. He was previously abducted by another terror group in Syria and was released, only to return again to the frontline and be sold to the Islamic State group, the Daily Mail reported. 

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