A chilling new image has emerged showing a child wearing the
uniform of an Islamic militia being used to fire rockets from a car-mounted
missile launcher during fierce clashes with ISIS jihadis.
Illustrating the way children are being increasingly sucked
into the deadly violence engulfing vast swathes of Syria and Iraq, the child
soldier - who appears no older than eight - wears full military uniform as he
kneels down to detonate the explosive.
Until now the majority of children engaged in the conflict
have been forced to do so by ISIS militants in the Sunni militants' strongholds
of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.
However the young child in this latest image wears the
uniform of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq - a Shia militia allied to the Syrian and Iraqi
regimes and a sworn enemy of the Islamic State.
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