Iraqi Teenagers Displaced by War Live Life of Despair

Osama Hazem flashed a huge grin. His younger brother Anas flashed one back. The two were showing off photographs of their glory days as teenage Muay Thai competition fighters in Ramadi. That was before Islamic State extremists stormed across vast strips of western Iraq, seizing their home and burning everything inside it. Like thousands of Iraqi Sunnis, Hazem and his brother refused to join the Sunni-dominated extremists. So they ran away. Hazem, his mother, sister,...

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