Shocking footage shows ISIS militants massacring 200 captive Syrian CHILDREN in horrifying mass execution

Update Thursday 12th. Since I posted this story on Monday the Daily Mail has amended the report with the information that the footage of the massacre is from August last year, and the victims are prisoners of war who were caught by ISIS after the jihadi group overran the Assad held Tabqa airbase in Syria. I won’t take it down because the comments are still pertinent, but the incident is older, and the victims servicemen not the early teenage boys I believed.  

ISIS militants have lined up and shot 200 Syrian children in the latest sickening mass execution video to emerge from inside the jihadis’ territory.

Forced to lie side-by-side and with their faces in the dirt, the video shows about 200 young children stretched out in a long line to the left and right. Behind them, at least a dozen gunmen armed with assault rifles and handguns stand poised and ready to fire.

One militant then begins firing at point blank range – shooting each child individually as he makes along the row of children. Others beside him also open fire, mostly using their machine guns, and the area is filled with dust, obscuring much of the bloodshed.

The video is believed to have been filmed somewhere inside Syria, where ISIS control a swathe of territory, including Raqqa, the capital of the terrorists’ self-proclaimed caliphate.

While ISIS is notorious for mass executions, there have been few reports of the militants targeting such a large group of children exclusively.

Although it lasts less than 30 seconds, almost all of the video is too graphic to broadcast unedited. It was not clear what the children were accused of in order to be sentenced to death. The sound has also been redacted, though clear sustained gunfire is heard throughout the original recording.