Minors are caught in the fighting in northeast Syria

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ISIS fighters have carried out deadly, sophisticated attacks on a prison in northeast Syria since last Thursday. The prison holds hundreds of ISIS members, among them children who were brought to the “caliphate” by their parents. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the children’s condition.

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