Islamic State [Isis] jihadists say they have thrown a gay man off a rooftop and stoned him to death for blasphemy.

The jihadists have also published a photograph to corroborate the punishment handed over to the victim, by what they call as the Islamic court.

"The Islamic court in Wilayet al-Furat [Iraq-Syria frontier] decided that a man who has practiced sodomy must be thrown off the highest point in the city, and then stoned to death," read a statement released by the IS.

While the first picture released by the Sunni extremist group shows the homosexual man being dragged to the top of a building in an unknown location, the second image shows a man lying on the ground.

In a related incident another man in northern Syria was beheaded for blasphemy charges by the Islamists.