'Brainwashed': Some of the 140 schoolboys reportedly captured by ISIS militants in Syria while travelling back home on a convoy of buses after taking their final exams in the city of Aleppo

Children of war: ISIS kidnaps 140 Kurdish schoolboys and are 'brainwashing' them into becoming suicide bombers

• Pupils aged 14 to 16 being held hostage in rebel-controlled city in Syria
• Forced to take lessons in Sharia law and watch horrific execution videos
• Escaped boy said armed fighters threatened to behead them if they fled

Daily Mail | 26 June 2014

Boy jihadis: An Al Qaeda fighter stands with two children holding machine guns while watching ISIS parade in commandeered Iraqi security force vehicles in Mosul, Iraq