IS teaches children to kill

Abducted boys forced to convert to Islam, as extremists take new approach to 'heretics'

The children had all been shown videos of beheadings and were told by their trainers with the Islamic State group that they would perform one someday. First, they had to practice technique. More than 120 boys were each given a doll and a sword and were told: cut off its head.

A 14-year-old among the boys, all abducted from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority, said he couldn't cut it right. He chopped once, twice, three times.