IS Allegedly Recruiting Child Suicide Bombers

Islamic State allegedly has been using child suicide bombers to target opponents in the Syrian civil war, officials and activists in Syria say. Kurdish military officials this week in the region of Afrin in northern Syria captured two children who say they were trying to detonate themselves in a residential area. "Their [IS] goal was for the children to be killed by our forces at a checkpoint," said Piran Shirwan, an official of the local Kurdish security agency. The two...

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