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UN report lays out agonies faced by Syrian children amid war

by Associated Press
| January 16, 2020 4:05 AM

GENEVA (AP) — In Syria's civil war, girls as young as nine have been raped and forced into sexual slavery. Boys have been tortured, forced into military training and ordered to carry out killings in public. Children have been targeted by sniper fire and used as bargaining chips to extract ransoms.

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