Northeast Syria: Military Recruitment of Children Persists

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Syrian Kurds demonstrate outside a UN building, calling on Kurdish authorities in Syria to help obtain the release of girls abducted and recruited into fighting, in the northeast city of Qamishli, November 28, 2021. © 2021 Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – A Kurdish youth group in northeast Syria with links to the de facto authorities is recruiting children apparently for eventual transfer to armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Child recruitment robs children of their childhood, exposes them to extreme violence, and can cause lasting physical…

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