Evil ISIS chiefs press-gang children as young as NINE into fight for Mosul

Desperate Islamic State warlords have ordered families to hand over their children to fight as jihadis.

Youngsters aged nine and over are being press-ganged in Mosul for front-line warfare as the terrorists struggle to ­maintain their besieged Iraqi stronghold.

And in some of the bloodiest fighting so far, commanders executed more than 50 IS deserters and marched 1,600 more civilians to the front line as human shields.

Iraqi forces have circled around the west of the city and have begun blasting their way into a new front in the north east.

Western sources say this stage of the attack will involve house-to-house fighting.

RAF Tornado and Typhoon bomber crews have carried out dozens of strikes, hitting ammunition dumps and gun teams.