The Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (ISIL) militants, also known as Daesh, reportedly abused and tortured the Kurdish children they have captured earlier this year from the Syrian town of Kobani.

International rights group Human Rights Watch reported tha the Islamists beat the captured Kurdish children with hoses and electric cables.

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The group also said they have come to theconclusion after doing interviews to the children who were among the 150 Kurdish boys abducted in May when they were on their way home from taking their exams from a school in Aleppo.

There were around 50 kids released from their captivity but the rest of them were released in batches. The last batch was said to be released on October 29.

Fred Abrahams of the Human Rights Watch pressed that ever since there was an uprising in Syria, children already suffered from tortures and beatings first from the regime of Bashar al-Assad and now from the ISIL militants. The torture of the children is proof enough that people should not support the militants especially their criminal enterprise, adds Abrahams.

According to the administered interviews, four of the boys that the Human Rights Watch talked to noted that they were held in the Syrian town of Manbij located in the north of the country and they described that they were frequently beaten by the militants.

The boys that were captured are said to be aged 14 to 16 and those who were interviewed said the worst abuse were reserved for those related to members of the Kurdish militia called YPG.

The boys added that the ISIL militants did not give them reasons why they were being released but only told them that that they already completed their "religious training." The militants did not elaborate on the given explanation.

The Kurds and the militants have been in a locked-in war since mid-September as the Kurds are trying to defend their cities from being seized by the rebels.

Kurds have been captured by the ISIL militants since February this year but most of those held in captive have already been released. However, it was not clear yet if there was an agreement or a prisoner exchange between the two parties.

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