ISIL recruiting and brainwashing Afghan children

Al Jazeera gains rare access to ISIL bases where children are being trained to become suicide bombers.


The fighters say they are gaining territory from Afghanistan's largest armed group, the Taliban. And in areas under ISIL control, young children are being trained to become fighters and suicide bombers.


Yes, these "brave" fighters are willing to sacrifice the lives of children for their delusion beliefs and ideology.

ISIS Recuriting Children

The Islamic State is raising an army of child soldiers, and the West could be fighting them for generations to come.

They stand in the front row at public beheadings and crucifixions held in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria. They’re used for blood transfusions when Islamic State fighters are injured. They are paid to inform on people who are disloyal or speak out against the Islamic State. They are trained to become suicide bombers. They are children as young as 6 years old, and they are being transformed into the Islamic State’s soldiers of the future.

Ivan Simonovic, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for human rights, recently returned from a visit to Iraq, where he interviewed displaced Iraqis in Baghdad, Dohuk, and Erbil. He said there is a "large and dangerously successful recruitment" program.

Speaking to a small group of reporters at the U.N., he said the fighters "appeal" to some of the youngsters and that they have approved adept at "manipulating young men and children." He explained that "they project an image of being victorious" and offer the promise that those who fall in battle will "go straight to heaven."

ISIS targets the minds of young children

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh looks at how ISIS tries to spread their ideas through the generations by cramming them into the minds of young children.
The video below shows children being trained by ISIS for jihad. It includes an interview with a 13 year old boy who escaped from the traing camp and fled to Turkey.