At Least 52 Children Die for Islamic State in Six Months: SOHR
Kurdish fighters are pictured during a clashes with fighters from the Islamic State group on the outskirts of Syrian city of Hasekeh on June 30, 2015.
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At least 52 Syrian children under the age of 16 died in the past six months while fighting for the Islamic State group, including several suicide bombers, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday.
At least eight children blew themselves up, SOHR said in an e-mail. More than 30 were killed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes or regime bombing of military posts, according to SOHR, which monitors the war in Syria using local activists.