Taking aim with his heavy machine gun in his hands, the young boy's childhood appears to have finished now that he is one of ISIS newest recruits in Syria.
These are the latest batch of child soldiers, shockingly indoctrinated into the bloodthirsty jihadi group's sickening ideology of brutality.
ISIS released these pictures on social media, boasting how the children were the new 'cubs of the caliphate' from the Syrian province of Damascus.
As well as learning about how to strip and re-assemble an AK 47 machine gun, the child recruits are taught how to wrestle and perform close combat moves.
Several boys seem to be smiling whilst the rest of the class look bored as two young boys wrestle on the pattern carpet on the floor.
All the children appear to be no older than about 10-years-old and generally appear relatively disinterested in being forced to handle weapons and fight one another.
Many of the recruits seem to be struggling with the clunky weight of the machine gun, forced to lean it against their knees as they shakily take aim.
A mismatch of various camouflage uniform is being worn by several of the children, with none of the co-ordinated military fatigues often seen in ISIS child soldier videos.
ISIS continues to churn out propaganda photos and videos on social media, showcasing their latest ideological conquests and their growing reliance on child soldiers.
Russian social media users claimed this week that one of the child soldiers, who allegedly executed a spy in an ISIS video, had been killed.
Abu Umar al-Qawqaz, was reportedly killed in a coalition airstrike in Syria this week.
His nom-de-guerre of 'al-Qawqaz' suggests he is from the Caucasus region but it is unclear what his real name was or his age,
The jihadi group shows no sign of changing their tactics of using Syrian and Iraqi teenagers as suicide bomb missions.
Despite their ongoing offensives in Syria and Iraq, ISIS have lost ground in parts of north-eastern Syria, particularly in the province of Hasakah.
Kurdish YPG forces recently declared the city of Hasakah free from ISIS, following a longstanding clean out of ISIS in pockets of the city's suburbs.
(dailymail.co.uk)
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