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- The Syrian children are forced to lie side-by-side with their faces in the dirt
- Behind them stand at least a dozen ISIS gunmen, armed with assault rifles
- The barbaric ISIS captors then open fire, killing an estimated 200 children
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PUBLISHED: 10:21 EST, 9 November 2015 | UPDATED: 11:49 EST, 9 November 2015
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ISIS militants have lined up and shot 200 Syrian children in the latest sickening mass execution video to emerge from inside the jihadis' territory.
Forced to lie side-by-side and with their faces in the dirt, the video shows about 200 young children stretched out in a long line to the left and right.
Behind them, at least a dozen gunmen armed with assault rifles and handguns stand poised and ready to fire.
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An ISIS militant starts firing at point blank range as a group of Syrian children executed by the barbaric jihadis
A gunman walks away from the massacre after having helped with the slaughter of 200 Syrian children
The film shows the detained children are bound then forced to lie face down in the dirt to await their death
The ISIS militants open fire on the children with assault rifles in what is the latest footage of a mass murder to emerge from inside the jihadis' territory
200 Syrian children killed in horrifying mass ISIS execution
One militant then begins firing at point blank range - shooting each child individually as he makes along the row of children.
Others beside him also open fire, mostly using their machine guns, and the area is filled with dust, obscuring much of the bloodshed.
The video is believed to have been filmed somewhere inside Syria, where ISIS control a swathe of territory, including Raqqa, the capital of the terrorists' self-proclaimed caliphate.
While ISIS is notorious for mass executions, there have been few reports of the militants targeting such a large group of children exclusively.
Although it lasts less than 30 seconds, almost all of the video is too graphic to broadcast unedited. It was not clear what the children were accused of in order to be sentenced to death.
The sound has also been redacted, though clear sustained gunfire is heard throughout the original recording.
ISIS is known to have executed children previously. In one instance, 1,700 Iraqi military cadets were slaughtered in a mass killing that lasted an entire day and night.
Grisly footage of the killings - likely to rank among the group's worst atrocities - showed executions on an industrial scale.
Young men were filmed falling from trucks and pleading for their lives before being lay down in shallow graves and sprayed with bullets.
Footage taken of the executions at the infamous Speicher massacre last year, in which 1,700 were killed by ISIS forces in Iraq
In this photograph, a group of Syrian government soldiers are detained before their execution in the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Palmyra
Others were shot individually and their bodies dumped into the Tigris River, while an excavator was required to shift vast piles of bodies as the executions continued into the night.
In addition to the mass killings, the terrorists have also attempted to invent new ways in which to murder people.
Public beheadings, dismemberment, and throwing people from tall buildings are a common occurrence within ISIS territory.
Other killings are held in areas of significance. After the jihadis overran the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, in May, they killed dozens inside its ancient Roman amphitheatre.
And the massacre of 1,700 military cadets in Iraq last year was carried out in part in Saddam Hussein's former presidential quarters in Tikrit.
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