A shocking photo of a baby lying sitting with a Kalashnikov on his lap, has been posted online by ISIS.
The sick image also shows the youngster, who cannot be much more than 12 months old, in front of the black ISIS flag.
The photo is just the latest in a collection showing kids dressed like terrorists to be posted online.
But this most recent addition, which was posted earlier this year, but has only just emerged, is thought to be one of the youngest children to be used as a sick prop by militants in their propaganda campaign.
It appeared on Twitter with the black ISIS logo in the top right hand corner of the picture.
Other disturbing photos posted by ISIS militants include one of as seven year-old boy holding a severed head and another of a baby lying next to a machine gun and surrounded by grenades.
The one of the youngster holding the head, which is thought to be that of a Syrian soldier, was posted with the message: "That's my boy!"
Earlier this year terrorist Khaled Sharrouf put up a photo of himself and his young sons dressed in camouflage gear, holding machine guns, standing in front of the ISIS flag.
Another, posted by 'Abu Abdur Rahman,' shows a boy of about ten with a holster holding machine gun magazines around his waist.
The message on the post reads: "Ask yourself, while this young man is holding magazines of the Islamic State, what are you doing for it #ISIS.
Posing with an AK-47, the photo below is believed to be one of the Islamic State's youngest jihadists, aged just 13.
Identified as Belgian Younes Abaaoud, he is alleged to have followed his older brother to the front line in Syria.
The group has also posted videos of children - or ISIS 'cubs' - in training for Jihad.
One posted earlier this week showed footage of a youngster firing an assault rifle while another showed a young boy being shown how to fire a weapon.
ISIS, (sometimes known as ISIL and later renamed simply Islamic State) is a Jihadist militant group in Iraq and Syria influenced by the Wahhabi movement.
It aims to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state in Sunni majority regions of Iraq and Syria. In June 2014, they seized control of Mosul, Fallujah and Tikrit in northern-Iraq in large scale military offensives.
On Tuesday the group shocked the world again when it posted a video online showing the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff.
It also featured a British hostage who ISIS are threatening with the same fate.
This followed footage the group posted last month of fellow US journalist James Foley being executed.
On both occasions the militant talking in the videos had a British accent.
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