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Children as young as 10 have described the heartbreakingly brutal military training they are forced to endure under ISIS .

While most youngsters their age are at school or playing with friends, these ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ are learning how to fire assault rifles and become suicide bombers as part of Islamic State’s twisted campaign of evil.

The terror group recruits boys as young as five in areas under its control to create the new generation of jihadist fighters.

Raghib Al-Yas Ahmed, 14, is a member of the Yazidi minority that has suffered horribly under ISIS .

Like thousands of Yazidi people, Ahmed was taken captive by the militants of the Islamic state with his family and thousands others and moved to Tel Afar when their ancient hometown of Sinjar in northern Iraq fell to the hands of militants last last August.

He then moved to Turkey with his mother and younger brother where they spent two months before he ended up in a military training camp in Raqqa where he spent the next seven months.

Young women of his family, including his two sisters were taken by the militants as sex slaves. His 20-year old sister Shahinaz, who has fled the Islamic State just few days ago, was raped and sold as a sex slave, while his second sister is still in the hands of the terror group.

He said: "They taught us how to slit throats and how to blow ourselves up. We put our hand on their forehead, lift the head up and put the knife on the neck and slaughter (them).

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"As for the bomb which is strapped around the waist, we are told to pull up a white piece of metal attached to it and it will immediately detonate.

"We are also taught to pull the ring on top (of a hand grenade) and throw it immediately, or it will explode on us. "

The innocent children are forced to undergo brutal military training after being made to convert to ISIS’ twisted interpretation of Islam.

Raghib added: "We learned how to dissemble weapons and anyone who does not know how to do it is punished until he learns.

"We also learned how to aim at a target and anyone who misses the target is punished.

"Training included a 30-minute run a day and anyone who cannot run is punished by beating the soles of his feet with cudgels or being forced to crawl.”

Another youngster, 10-year-old Hamada Shihab Ahmed, added: "Military training included how to use the machine gun and undisciplined children were punished by leaving them under the sun or lashing them with a hose.

"Food was so meagre. We eat one meal a day."

Last week a teenager described the harrowing moment an ISIS terrorist known as ‘The Bulldozer’ cut off his foot and hand for refusing to join the terror group.

Omar, 14, was part of a more moderate militia fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad but the terror thugs kidnapped him and ordered him to join their murderous ranks.

When he defied them, they strung him up and tortured him for a month and a half.

The children's exhausting timetable:

4.30am - Woken up to perform prayer. Afterwards they sleep again

8am - Breakfast

9am - Lessons in the Quran and ISIS' so-called Islamic doctrine.

12pm - Lunch

1pm - Military and physical drills until 5pm