For the first time, jihadist child beheads Syrian soldier, monitoring group says

This photo shows the horrific moment that barbaric ISIS warlords forced a young boy to behead a prisoner in public.

ISIS has released a new Cubs of Caliphate video ensuring heightened stigma and disbelief in which a ten year old ISIS child fighter is observed beheading a Syrian army officer.

The footage is reported to have been filmed at the Western Hir Palace in Homs Province after the Syrian commander was captured at an army checkpoint.

It’s the first time ISIS has recorded one of its “cubs of the caliphate” conducting a beheading, though earlier videos have shown child soldiers as firing-squad executioners. The Islamic State captured the city in May and has reportedly been destroying the “several millennia-old” monuments and buildings ever since.

However, using a child to carry out a brutal beheading with a knife is a sickening new low for ISIS.

Islamic State militants have punished at least 94 people including five teenagers, accusing them of violations during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on July 16. The child soldier was adorned in a camouflage uniform and a black head bandana.

The regime soldier is seen being forced to lay on his stomach as the young boy approaches him from behind, pulls his head back by the hair, and uses a small knife to slit the man’s throat and set about beheading him.

After the ISIS child beheads the Syrian soldier, the boy lifts the head into the air and then places it on the back of the lifeless body on the pavement.

At the end of the video, an older militant faces the camera threatening the West, “Our goal is not only Palmyra or Homs or Damascus, rather our goal is to conquer Bayt al- Maqdes [Jerusalem] and Rome, God willing”, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The ancient town is home to approximately 50,000 residents and has remained under government control since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.