Islamic State's Growing Use Of Child Soldiers

A still of an Isis video called "Al-Farouq Institute for Cubs" claiming to show a children's terror training camp

The Independent: Isis kidnaps up to 500 children in Iraq 'to use as suicide bombers and child soldiers'

Up to 500 children reportedly kidnapped by Isis in Iraq could be used as suicide bombers and child soldiers, officials have claimed.

They were taken to territory held by the so-called Islamic State in two provinces, possibly for training at the group’s camps for youngsters it dubs “cubs of the Caliphate”.

Farhan Mohammed, from Anbar’s provincial council, said boys had been abducted from the towns of Ar Rutba, Al-Qaim, Anah and Rawa over a week.

Update: ISIL kidnaps 500 children in Iraq’s Anbar, Diyala: Officials (Press TV).

WNU Editor: News coverage on the Islamic State using child soldiers is not new .... a number of news agencies covered this story earlier this year. But it appears that this tactic of using children as fodder in this war is expanding, with even more children being kidnapped and "brainwashed".