The Islamic State has released footage featuring a young boy heartlessly beheading a Syrian regime army officer, which is believed to be the first of its kind.
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The extremist thugs have increasingly turned to their so-called “cubs of the Caliphate” as loathsome propaganda tools to carry out their vile deeds.
The unnamed Syrian officer beheaded by the ISIS child is thought to have been in charge of a unit in the city of Palmyra.
Islamic State militants have punished at least 94 people including five teenagers, accusing them of violations during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on July 16.
ISIS” child killers are dubbed “cubs of the caliphate.’. The child soldier was adorned in a camouflage uniform and a black head bandana.
“In a moment of true horror the child then lifts the victim’s severed head in a warped celebration of the brutal murder”.
The boy, whose face is uncovered, grabs the back of the Syrian man’s hair and uses a small knife to slit the man’s throat, brutally beheading him.
At the end, the older member speaks to the camera: “Our goal is not only Palmyra or Homs or Damascus, rather our goal is to conquer Bayt al-Maqdes (Jerusalem) and Rome, God willing”, according to SOHR.
It was gathered that a video of the incident has been shared by ISIS supporters on social media and shows a child no older than 10 years of age, carrying out the brutal beheading.
IS has also made children attend public execution-style killings, and has even filmed interviews with boys aged between 11 and 14 who were made to attend a public screening of a video showing Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh being burned alive.
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Several weeks ago an ISIS execution video reportedly recorded inside Palymrya, shows Syrian soldiers being lined up against a wall in the Roman amphitheater and shot in the head by 25 ISIS cubs of the caliphate. The ancient town is home to approximately 50,000 residents and has remained under government control since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
