Clutching an AK-47 and pointing to the sky, this 13-year-old schoolboy is believed to be ISIS' youngest jihadist.
Younes
Abaaoud, from Belgium, followed his older brother to the front line in
Syria and is believed be among dozens of child-fighters in the war zone
from Europe.
A
series of images of the schoolboy posing with various weapons came
weeks after the seven-year-old son of Australian terrorist Khaled
Sharrouf was pictured in Syria holding a decapitated head.
Brussels-born Younes is said to have travelled to Syria with his brother Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, earlier this year.
Britain
has among the highest number of extremists fighting for ISIS - at least
500 - but Belgium has the highest proportion based on its population.
The older brother, pictured, has also been used as a poster boy for ISIS to recruit more people from Belgium
One was tweeted by a Belgian journalist who claimed its showed the fighter with a German militant named Abu Azzam.
He also posted a picture which he said showed Abdelhamid pointing a gun while sat in a car tyre.
Younes
Abaaoud's identity has been tweeted by Shiraz Maher, an academic and
senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation at King’s College, London.
He wrote: 'One of the youngest foreign fighters we know of Younes Abaaoud, who was 13 when he left Belgium to join ISIS.'
The tweet has prompted shocked reactions from other Twitter.
Shocking: Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf posted a picture of his seven-year-old son holding a severed head
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