Child soldiers and child suicide bombers are a sign of desperation in ISIS now: Also 700,000 refugee children many orphans are in Syria now

The children were a sign of desperation as the Islamic State’s numbers dwindle under a multinational onslaught from Libya to Syria to Iraq, Omer said.

 

"In the past they were counting mostly on foreign militants for suicide attacks,” he said. “Now it's time for the generation they created (to take over).”

The situation for children in Syria is probably even worse than in Iraq.

The observatory estimated that the Islamic State was using thousands of soldiers in Syria, including 4,000 in Deir Ezzor in the eastern part of the country. Those numbers might even be low. The U.N. noted that about 700,000 children, many of them orphans, are among the refugees within Syria because of the country’s 5-year-old civil war.The children were a sign of desperation as the Islamic State’s numbers dwindle under a multinational onslaught from Libya to Syria to Iraq, Omer said.

"In the past they were counting mostly on foreign militants for suicide attacks,” he said. “Now it's time for the generation they created (to take over).”

The situation for children in Syria is probably even worse than in Iraq.

The observatory estimated that the Islamic State was using thousands of soldiers in Syria, including 4,000 in Deir Ezzor in the eastern part of the country. Those numbers might even be low. The U.N. noted that about 700,000 children, many of them orphans, are among the refugees within Syria because of the country’s 5-year-old civil war.

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ISIL brainwashed kids to become next generation of extremists

The 700,000 children refugees in Syria, many of whom are orphans are vulnerable to brainwashing of various sorts depending upon who is taking care of them too. This in some ways is an ongoing disaster that reminds me more and more of world war II and all the ongoing hell of the Cold War that came from all that during the next 45 years after world War II.

The end of the Army of ISIS is not the end of these problems. I think we need to be realistic that the world is going to be haunted by these kinds of problems in various ways for years to come. And one of the most serious problems is extremely traumatized and brainwashed orphans who have become child soldiers in an effort not to die from all the abuse.