Islamic State has formed a new fighting battalion composed entirely of English-speaking militants with orders to carry out attacks in the West.

The 'Anwar al-Awlaki Battalion' has been created to focus solely on carrying out attacks abroad and is working to export its fighters after they've attended training camps, it has been claimed.

Anti-ISIS group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said its informants in the organisation's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa notified it of the development.

The new ISIS battalion is composed entirely of English-speaking recruits and has been given orders to carry out attacks in the West

According to one of the informants, a foreigner fighter proclaimed: 'Finally, the orders have been issued to implement an armed operation within my country.

He added: 'I am now ready to return to my town and carry out operations, now I am able to Jihad in Europe.'

The new battalion was said to have been formed to make good on ISIS' threats to carry its jihad to Europe after a U.S.-led alliance began its bombing campaign in September.

Its name is a reference to Anwar al-Awlaki, the American cleric who was killed in Yemen in a 2011 CIA drone strike who remains hugely popular with the militants.

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently is a small activist collective which secretly documents the shocking violence and oppression ISIS has brought to their home city.

Using a network of informers kept anonymous to protect their safety, it leaks details of the ISIS occupation to the world.