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It looks like the war on terrorism needs a long breath as ISIL armed terrorists and al-Qaeda affiliated groups are teaching the younger generations the Wahhabi extremist ideology, not to mention giving them lessons on how to make bombs and use arms.

According to a report published by The Times, sources reported that ISIL has set up camps for thousands of young boys called “Lion cubs of the Caliphate” by the extremist groups, who are taught to even spy on their parents or even kill them.

The report stated that “ISIL is raising a very serious jihadi generation, kids are growing, learning and teaching what they’ve learnt,” quoting Mohammad Allaw, an activist in the city of Deir Ezzor who uses a pseudonym. The parents, who see their children feeding on extremist thought, find themselves helpless as their children get more involved in the extremist ideology of ISIL.

Pointing out that 2000 children were attending an ISIS training camp in the city of Mayadin, 25km south of Deir Ezzor, the activist went on to say that “The child becomes more violent and brutal than the ISIS members themselves, as kids are like white paper, where you can write and copy whatever you desire.”

Those living under ISIL rule report that the militant group has focused huge resources in the training and indoctrination of children as young as six or seven.

Videos were disseminated online that showed young boys taking part in a game in which they killed bound Syrian government prisoners in a ruined medieval fort. The report elaborated saying that “Each boy was given a pistol and sent to hunt a prisoner in turn. Four were filmed shooting a cowering, chained prisoner while the fifth was given a knife and ­beheaded the final man.” According to one case, the mother of a Yazidi young boy called Murad, belonging to the Yazidi religious minority, explained that her son’s brain was changed.

“Most of the kids were saying to their families, ‘Go, we will stay’,” she said. “Until the last moment before we left, my son was saying, ‘I will not come with you’.” Murad’s mother, who declined to be named, was enslaved and ­repeatedly raped by ISIS militants. His father, a member of the Yazidi community, was murdered by the group. Yet when the mother managed to secure a way for them to escape, the nine-year-old boy told her he did not wish to go.

ISIL has taken control of most of the schools within its territory and has changed the curriculum. Experts say that in terms of the way terrorist groups use children and the techniques of indoctrination, the methods of ISIL have been unprecedented in their scale.

The IB Times had reported earlier in 2015 that “Ahmed Aslef was just 10 years old when he was lined up with hundreds of other Yazidi children outside the Iraqi village of Kocho in front of the heavily armed terrorist fighters of ISIL. The militants ordered the children to raise their arms and then killed those with armpit hair.

Since the Kocho massacre, survivors have claimed as many as 800 people were killed with boys as young as 12 among the dead. Ahmed was spared but was recruited into the ISIL youth wing that has become known as the Caliphate cubs.