14 underage ISIS recruits reported killed in airstrikes, suicide missions in Iraq

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than a dozen Syrian children recruited by the Islamic State (ISIS) group have been killed in suicide bombings and US-led coalition air strikes in Iraq, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)  reported.

It claimed that the 14 dead children were among some 400 so-called “Cubs of the Caliphate” who were recruited by ISIS over a six-month period this year, and sent for missions in Iraq after training.

Quoting an unidentified source, SOHR said that underage recruits undergo a 40-day training course before being sent on missions.

"ISIS uses children to work as spies and agents to gather news and as guards on its own posts," as well as for suicide bombings, the Observatory said.