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Syria’s Child Soldiers: Armed Factions Are Sending Kids To The Front Lines

Displaced children play with toy guns in the make-shift camp of al-Bardaqli near Sarmada, northwest Syria.
Displaced children play with toy guns in the make-shift camp of al-Bardaqli near Sarmada, northwest Syria. Juma Mohammad/IMAGESLIVE/ZUMA

After more than a decade of war in Syria, where some 90% of the population now lives in poverty, children are working as fighters for the armed factions to help feed their families.

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