Children and teenagers are being recruited to ISIS during lockdown in “worrying” numbers, the Foreign Secretary has warned MPs.
Speaking in the Commons about the continued threat of the group, Dominic Raab said it is “still able to carry out lethal attacks” and it remains the UK’s “most significant terrorist threat” both at home and abroad.
Mr Raab said that while ISIS's "brand has weakened – it remains, nonetheless, globally recognised". Children have increasingly become the focus of the violent group's digital recruiters, with lockdown exposing more vulnerable children to their sick ideology online.
The Foreign Secretary told MPs: “In December 2020, the UK Counter-Terrorism Referral Unit saw a 7% rise in the volume of terrorist content