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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

How the Islamic State Lures Child Recruits to Fight in Syria and Iraq

The New Recruits

How the Islamic State lures children to fight in Syria and Iraq

by Emily Feldman

ANKARA, Turkey—Yasar's son was only 14 when he left his home in Ankara, Turkey, to join the deadliest group in the Middle East.

Telling his father he was going with his older brother to sell vegetables in a market outside the city, he instead hitched a ride with four friends to Syria, where he was inducted into the radical militant group, the Islamic State.

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