A Boy Plays a Starring Role in Disturbing New Islamic State Execution Video

The Islamic State group released a new sickening video that appears to show the moment a boy executed a captive by shooting him point-blank, a terrorism monitoring group reported.

In the video, the victim, wearing the orange jumpsuit that has become a hallmark of the terrorist group’s productions, kneels on the ground as he awaits execution.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist activities, the al-Jazeera Province of the Islamic State in northern Iraq (unrelated to the media network with the same name) issued both still photos and a video showing the gruesome scene.

Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, a group that tracks the Islamic State group’s human rights abuses, said the man was executed on “charges of working for the coalition” fighting Islamic State rebels.

#ISIS make a kid kill a man in #Aljazeera On charges of working for the coalition #Syria #IS pic.twitter.com/Utau42ffEz

— الرقة تذبح بصمت (@Raqqa_Sl) August 3, 2015

The jihadist group has released a number of videos highlighting its training of boys — referred to as "cubs of the caliphate" — into terrorists.

In May, it released a video purporting to show a teenage boy executing a man accused of being a spy.

Particularly disturbing images released last month showed another boy contributing to the Tikrit massacre last summer by serving as a shooter on the edge of the Tigris River, into which those killed were pushed.