At its height, ISIS recruited and trained children to fight for its cause. Some participated in atrocities and appeared in propaganda videos. Others were brought to the so-called caliphate by their parents or they were born there. The World’s Shirin Jaafari visits a rehabilitation center in northeastern Syria and brings us the story of one young man from Trinidad who has been stuck there for 5 1/2 years.
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