[Published here July 16, 2019]
Her dark hair was pulled back by a white scrunchie and she had chipped pink polish on her nails. Like any teenager, I thought. But the words she spoke were as far from a carefree teenagedom as you could get.
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In Iraq, minority children haunted by ghosts of IS captivity | AFP
[Published here July 14, 2019]
Khanke Displacement Camp (Iraq) (AFP) – Brainwashed and broken, the Islamic State group’s youngest victims are struggling to recover from years of jihadist captivity as they return to their own traumatised minority communities in Iraq.
Omran, one child among millions traumatised by Syria war | AFP
[Published here on August 19, 2016]
Beirut (AFP) – Haggard and covered in blood, little Omran’s blank stare has grabbed headlines around the world. But across war-torn Syria, thousands of children like him are traumatised by daily life under siege and the threat of bombs.
