- Though the terrorist group proudly boasts about its Western members on social media, most of its recruitment remains focused on locals, particularly young boys, in the areas it has taken over.- It can be said that this organization have been increasing their recruitment on children instead of adults. Compared with only 140 adults have joined it in early 2014, more than 400 Syrian were recruited by the IS. The reason for this is that "They use children because it is easy to brainwash them. They can build these children into what they want, they stop them from going to school and send them to [Islamic State] schools instead," Rami Abdulrahman, who heads the British-based observatory for human rights, said.- The kids, some under the age of 8, but most commonly 14 to 15 years old, are sent to training camps where recruitment officers offer religious education alongside weapons training. The children, in turn, are paid for attending. However, when class is over and the camp ends, the children are not allowed to return home. Instead, they are sent into active combat zones and in some cases, on suicide bombing missions.- Though the UN has called the act of child recruitment a war crime, it seems ISIS is only ramping up efforts to increase its numbers of pint-sized soldiers. As one Syrian fighter put it, "children are not children anymore."
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