article_snippet: Human Rights Watch, an organisation which defends the rights of people worldwide, interviewed four former  ISIS child and adult fighters, as well as civilians in the terrorist-controlled areas in Syria.
article_snippet: One doctor said One doctor treated a boy aged between 10 and 12 years old whose job it was to whip ISIS prisoners.
article_snippet: In November last year, a United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria report found that massacres, the beheading of boys as young as 15, and amputations and lashings in public squares with residents - including children - forced to watch were on the list of crimes.
article_snippet: The research, based on interviews and documents, photographs and video footage released by the group itself, showed there was widespread use of child soldiers, and forcing women to bear children to the fighters.
article_snippet: The research, based on interviews and documents, photographs and video footage released by the group itself also discovered children are subjected to violence and are systematically recruited as soldiers - forced to witness and carry out atrocities.
article_snippet: Human Rights Watch has called on ISIS to stop deliberately recruiting children, in particular through weapons training and other military training in school environments.