Institute for the Study of War Research Director Jessica Lewis McFate on the Islamic State’s global ambitions. Photo credit: Getty Images.

ISLAMIC State has released chilling video showing children as young as five being trained in a Syrian terror camp.

Touted as the next generation of jihadist killers, the camouflage-clad boys participate in drills, recite verses from the Koran and receive weapons training.

The nine-minute video, released on Monday, was apparently shot at the Al Farouk Institute for Cubs in Raqqa, Syria.

The junior jihadis are reportedly the sons of foreign fighters who have fled to Iraq and Syria to join the terror organisation.

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An instructor in the video states in Arabic that most of the children are in the second phase of training and that they represent the “next generation” of IS.

The IS indoctrination camps have been compared with the Hitler Youth camps of Nazi Germany.

A UN Human Rights Council report last year found that IS “has established training camps to recruit children into armed roles under the guise of education.”

“At the camps, the children recruited received weapons training and religious education,” the report stated.

“The existence of such camps seems to indicate that ISIS systematically provides weapons training for children. Subsequently, they were deployed in active combat during military operations, including suicide-bombing missions.”

Global terrorism expert Ryan Mauro said the troubling video is designed to send a message that IS is strong and growing.

“If you believe the ISIS caliphate is the best place to be and Allah commands you to go there, you’d want your family there, too,” Mr Mauro, a national security analyst for the Clarion Project, told Fox News.

“For ISIS supporters, this is like signing your kid up for the best private school. ISIS is emphasising its child recruits because it obviously makes for good footage but also to emphasise this is a generational struggle. You can kill off the current leaders and fighters, but their kids will fight on. It makes it harder to celebrate ISIS’ losses if you know their manpower will be replenished with brainwashed children.”

IS has long been known to train child soldiers for use as human shields, suicide bombers and executioners.

One father told the website Syria Deeply.org that his 13-year-old son was forced to attend a training camp and instructed to decapitate blonde, blue-eyed dolls — practice for beheading Westerners.

Other images and video on social media shows foreign fighters with their children holding knives and severed heads.

IS is known for recruiting disenchanted youth through social media, including three missing British schoolgirls believed to have fled to Syria to become jihadi brides.