WATCH: New video claims to show 70 people being rescued by US and Kurdish forces

Footage has emerged claiming to be of the moment 70 people held by Islamic State were rescued by US and Kurdish forces.

In the un-verified video posted online by Iraq's Kurdish regional authority, men surrounded by soldiers are moved from a building, while what seems to be gunfire can be heard.

Clip via Russia Today

An American soldier who was killed in Thursday's raid was flown back to the US yesterday.