Independent: The daily horror in “schools of jihad”

"Forced viewings of beheadings and torture, training with weapons almost as big as they are and daily lessons in extremist theology: if you're a boy growing up in Isis-controlled territory across Syria and Iraq, the word education means something very different to the rest of the world.

Official Isis media outlets are circulating videos and images which they claim show life in the "School of Jihad", where children under the age of 10 are encouraged to fire AK47 rifles and acclimatised to the horrors of war."

In some video armed boys are shown in a 'convoy' of jihadists in Mosul:

According to the Independent, another clip posted as part of the "Messages from the Land of the Final Battles" series appears to be a graduation video.
"It shows the new "School of Jihad" graduates lined up before a stage, listening to a speaker, while rows of adults who are thought to be their parents can be seen watching on".

As Independent points out: "Though the precise time and location when the videos were shot cannot be independently verified, references to "Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham" suggest they pre-date 29 June, when the caliphate and rebranding were announced".
UN's Human Rights Council found that Isis "has established training camps to recruit children into armed roles under the guise of education".

According to the UNs report, "At the camps, the children recruited received weapons training and religious education. 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."