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Report: ISIS Abducted Children to Use as Suicide Bombers, Human Shields in Mosul

Frank Camp

With the liberation of Mosul underway, the Islamic State has become increasingly agitated. This state of panic has lead them to abduct children as young as eight to act as suicide bombers, human shields, and fight with them on the front-lines.

According to sources within the Yazidi Brigade, part of the Kurdish peshmerga forces, Islamic State militants lured young boys from the town of Tel Afar out into the open Friday by announcing that they had taken the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

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