ISISMore than 500 ISIS militants killed in Mosul so far -- 300 of them child-soldiers
More than 500 ISIS militants have been killed since the beginning of the campaign to re-retake Mosul. Of the 500 ISIS dead, about 300 are child-soldiers called “Caliphate Lion Cubs.” ISIS militants have killed more than 300 civilians last week alone – some of them members of ISIS suspected of trying to stage a revolt against the jihadists.
More than 300 ISIS child soldiers have been killed in the two weeks since Iraqi government forces and their allies launched an offensive to retake Mosul.
The New York Post reports that so far, sources within the U.S.-led coalition say that more than 500 ISIS fighters have been killed in the battle for Mosul – including the 300 child soldiers — out of an estimated ISIS contingency of 4,500 tasked with defending the city.
ISIS militants have killed more than 300 civilians last week alone – some of them members of ISIS suspected of trying to stage a revolt against the jihadists. UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters that of the civilians shot dead by ISIS, “there were 190 former Iraqi Security Forces officers. These reports have been corroborated to the extent possible.”
The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) has said that the bodies of forty ISIS members killed in Mosul have been taken to the group’s capital, Al-Raqqah since the weekend. SOHR says that the majority of those returned are child fighters known as the “Caliphate Lion Cubs.”
The watchdog said on its website: “This will raise the death toll to at least 480 Syrian fighters killed in the ranks of the Islamic State since the start of the battles in the Mosul area, among them more than 300 child soldiers from the ‘lion cubs of the caliphate.”
