How I.S. Recruits Children for Terror
New UN-backed I.S. report ; Iranian billionaire sentenced to death; Wounded soldier's story
UN-backed report suggests that militants from the so-called Islamic State are normalising children to violence by making them watch executions and play football with severed heads; A billionaire Iranian businessman -- who helped Tehran evade sanctions on oil sales -- has been sentenced to death for stealing some of the proceeds; A wounded warrior's story told through forty five objects.
(photo: Young Syrians belonging to the so-called 'Islamist Police' made up of local citizens, former opposition fighters as well as army defectors control cars in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on September 2, 2013. Credit: MEZAR MATAR/AFP/Getty Images.)
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