With its Caliphate Faltering, Islamic State Rushes to Indoctrinate Children

A young boy being trained in an Islamic State-run school volunteers for a suicide bombing. Source: Aaamaq IS channel

IS social media distributed photos in several languages of children holding placards in Islamic State territories offering "congratulations" on the deaths of Americans, apparently in reference to the Orlando mass shooting on June 12, 2016.

Elementary school children receive training in Raqqa, Syria.

Young boys receive military training at a camp south of Damascus, Syria.

Young boys recite the Quran as part of Islamic State-run school curriculum.

Middle-school students being taught at an Islamic State-run school in Raqqa, Syria.

School children in an Islamic State-run boot camp.

Young boys receive lessons in the Quran during Ramadan.

A year-end ceremony for school children at an Islamic State-run school.

A military show called “Caliphate Cubs” in Raqqa.