UN human rights commissioner said the cold-blooded murder by a Sunni militant group in northern Iraq is almost certainly a war crime.
Navi Pillay said the UN has evidence of human rights monitors in Iraq that shows hundreds of soldiers who detained executed.
The fighters of the Sunni militant group, ISIS, control of several cities in Iraq in the past week including Click Tal Afar in northern Iraq and the key cities of Mosul and Tikrit.
In a final battle near Fallujah, soldiers reportedly shot down the helicopter.
Around 500,000 people were displaced by fighting in Mosul, which is controlled by the extremist group.
Meanwhile Foreign Minister John Kerry said U.S. air strikes may be used to stop the ISIS militants in Iraq.
"That (air raid) is one important option to suppress and stop the movement of groups working with open truck convoys and to terrorize people," said Kerry.
"If anyone kills a person with such a way of mass murder, the act must be stopped and what needs to be done to stop by air or other means," he added.
Spain arrested eight members of ISIS cells
Spanish police arrested eight people for allegedly recruiting militias to fight in Syria and Iraq.
They estimate these cells are trying to send people to join the militants Click ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Operations carried out in Madrid on Monday morning, officials said.
The cell leader was detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after being captured in Afghanistan, a statement said.
A number of reports were not yet confirmed in the Spanish media said one of the eight people came from Spain, the other from Argentina and six other from Morocco.
Leadership group Spanish media reported Ikasrrien named Lahcen, was detained in Guantanamo Bay for several years, but was released in 2005 to Spain for lack of evidence.
Police also reportedly seeking brother one bomber Madrid.
Islamist militia that carried out attacks on four trains in March 2004, killing 191 people and injuring 1,800 others. BBC
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