'We are not terrorists': Bana's tearful message to Trump

In her message Bana, who was evacuated from besieged Aleppo to Turkey in December, appealed to Trump to help the children of Syria and stop the war.

The 7-year-old, whose Twitter account became famous for documenting the atrocities in her native Aleppo, appears tearful in the video.

"Donald Trump, my name is Bana al-Abed, and I am seven years old from Aleppo, Syria. We are the children of Syria. We are not terrorists. We are like your children," Bana says.

"Please help us stop the war. The children deserve life."

Through her tragic descriptions of life in besieged Aleppo on her @AlabedBana Twitter account, Bana became a symbol of the tragedy unfolding in Syria and has been compared to Anne Frank, German Jewish diarist during WWII.

"Bana represents the voice of the children of Syria. She was besieged in Aleppo, flushed out of her town, and flushed out of her country," said Kholoud Helmi, an activist and the co-founder of the underground Syrian newspaper Enab Baladi.

"Her voice represents the struggle of these kids that were supposed to have a life. She was supposed to go to school and play, like a little girl. She wasn't supposed to tweet news. But the circumstances forced her to, because she has the luxury of knowing English.

"Her voice is being heard, but other children do not have that luxury because they do not speak English, and are being killed on a daily basis."

At least 15,000 children are among the more than 300,000 people who have been killed in Syria's six-year war between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and rebel forces.

Last year, in his first interview after winning the US elections, Trump suggested his country would side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Assad "to fight" Islamic State group.

"Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS," Trump said, using an alternative acronym for IS.