13-Year Old French Boy Becomes The Youngest ISIS Member To Be Killed In Action

A 13-year-old boy named Abu Bakr al-Faransi, from France is believed to be the youngest to die fighting for Islamic State in Syria. The kid was killed when Government forces attacked a border post he was guarding, according to a report on Mailonline. Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, said: 'The 'al Faransi' moniker shows that like 'al Britanni', IS want to rub it in for all of us in Europe that our young people
continue to be drawn to them, as martyrs from the IS viewpoint, or like rabbits to car headlights from ours.
'This chap got killed, that's the bottom line. What an appalling waste of a young life. The government's riposte should be that if IS have to rely on young kids to fight for them, they're really beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

'It also shows that young Muslims are targets of IS recruitment, whether from Bethnal Green or from a French banlieu.' 

Mr Glees added: 'We undoubtedly need to work together with our European allies to reverse this deeply worrying trend; the first step is to recognise that it exists. The second is to ensure that those who are helping IS are told to stop it.'