A distraught mother has relived the horrors of the brutal rule of ISIS and revealed how the extremist group would 'knead children to death in bakery machines'.

Alice Assaf said her son was killed 'because he was called George' and refused to identify himself by a Muslim name.

Ms Assaf claims ISIS slaughtered Christians in Syria, kneading children to death in bread machines and 'baking men in ovens'.

She said the terror group targeted her home town in Syria some two years ago, unleashing a horrifying reign of terror as they took hold of the suburb's population, murdering both adults and children.

Alice Assaf managed to flee her home town alive, but her son was beaten and shot by ISIS

Ms Assaf said she pleaded with her son to change his name but he refused and was beaten to death and shot by ISIS militants.

She told Roads to Success - an organisation seeking to improve human rights in the Middle East - how the terror unfolded.

Ms Assaf said during the massacre she and her son had sought refuge in the home of a Muslim neighbour, who betrayed them.

'Later on, we heard that the militants grabbed six strong men working at the bakery and burned them inside the oven,' she said.

'After that, they caught some 250 kids and kneaded them like dough in the bakery dough machine.'

She also said when troops attempted to intervene, children as young as four were thrown from the top of balconies in a bid to scare soldiers away.

Ms Assaf claims ISIS slaughtered Christians in Syria, kneading children to death in bread machines and 'baking men in ovens'

The grieving mother told Roads to Success - an organisation seeking to improve human rights in the Middle East - how the terror unfolded

She also recounted her son's last words: ' I don't want to hide myself. You [Alice] are the one who taught me to follow what Christ said, 'whoever denies me before men, I will also deny them before Heaven.'

Ms Assaf added: 'They took him to a backyard to shoot and kill him. They killed him because his name was 'George'.

While Ms Assaf succeeded in fleeing from the region, her son was buried in a mass grave and she did not know the whereabouts of his body until now.

And while some towns have been liberated from the extremist group, residents continue to live in fear.

Just days ago, the Iraqi army forces arrived in the Al Qayyarah town during the operation to retake Mosul from ISIS

On Wednesday, i mprovised land mines planted by the Islamic State group killed and wounded hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children, in a town recently freed of the militants in northern Syria.

A leading human rights group said civilians returning to the town of Manbij since it was liberated from the extremists in August have reported finding explosive devices placed in doorways and windows, under mattresses and piles of shoes, in refrigerators and bags of clothes and in television sets.

The Human Rights Watch revealed the horrors in a report based on a five-day investigation in the town.

'ISIS mined virtually everything including, quite literally, the kitchen sink before they left,' said Ole Solvang, deputy emergencies director at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

He said the number of victims is likely to increase as more people return to their homes.

Families walk through the Debaga refugee camp where people displaced by fighting in and around Mosul have sought shelter

ISIS' reign of terror has seen the group commit some of the most barbaric atrocities.

This week the group have suffocated hundreds of people trying to flee Mosul by setting fire to a sulphur plant sending poisonous gas across the city.

Hospitals in Mosul were overwhelmed with patients including children and pregnant women who had inhaled the gas causing breathing problems and choking.

Earlier this week, the terrorists used a bulldozer to dump the corpses in a mass grave at the city's abandoned College of Agriculture.

All 284 victims, including children, were said to have been shot.

Some of the 550 families taken hostage by Islamic State were able to return home while others will continue to be used as human shields by retreating jihadis.