Iraq: Islamic State group's child soldiers
- 9 years ago
Two Iraqi children who managed to escape from the Islamic State group (IS) have told FRANCE 24 that the jihadists planned to turn them into child soldiers. The two cousins, who are members of the Yazidi community, a religious minority considered heretics by the IS group, were captured with several members of their family in their village in northern Iraq.
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Also in this edition: negotiations for a nuclear deal with Tehran continue. We spoke to the former French ambassador to Iran to get his analysis.
Finally, a law in Jordan means that rapists who marry their victims avoid going to jail. Our reporters in Amman went to get the victims’ point of view.
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