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The Wahhabi Daesh [the Arabic Acronym for the terrorist "ISIS"/"ISIL"] group has used a 10-year-old American boy to issue a threat to Donald Trump as the group seeks to inspire terror attacks around the world.

The boy, named in the propaganda video as Yusuf, appeared in footage Daesh claimed was filmed in its de-facto capital of Raqqa.

"My message to Trump..." he said, staring into the camera, adding that "this battle is not going to end in Raqqa or Mosul, it is going to end in your lands."

He further stated: "By the law of Allah we will have victory, so get ready for the fighting has just begun."

Appearing to be reading from a script, Yusuf said he moved to the so-called Daesh state two years ago from the US with his mother, and claimed his father was an American soldier who had served in Iraq.

He called his home country a state of "non-believers".

The footage, which could not be independently verified, showed militants preparing for the offensive by making tunnels, strapping on suicide vests and picking up guns amid the sound of gunfire and bombardment.

It ended with Yusuf and seven-year-old Abdullah driving a hole in a wall before an older fighter apparently trained the American boy to use a sniper rifle.

"Do you think that we'll be finished?" Yusuf said. "Never! We will remain until the day of judgement."

The group has featured the children of foreign fighters prominently in propaganda videos, using boys believed to be the sons of Daesh members Sally Jones and Grace "Khadija" Dare in gory executions.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team