A 13-year-old French boy, identified as Abu Bakr al-Faransi, has been named the youngest person killed in action fighting for ISIS.
Al-Faransi was killed two months ago, reported Radio France International. The boy and his family were from Strasbourg in eastern France before they went to Syria last spring.
He was killed defending a frontier post against the Syrian army in Homs.
“Two of his brothers, one of whom recently appeared in an IS propaganda video, are also reported to have been killed,” RFI said in the report.
A source with ISIS, known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, said the terrorist organization welcomed the boy’s “martyrdom.”
Photos that purport to show the teenaged boy include him smiling and holding what appears to be an M-16 rifle.
Anthony Glees, who is the head of the Center for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, told MailOnline: “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.
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