Child Soldiers

A member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) carries an automatic rifle on a road. (Photo: Safin Hamid/AFP)

Kurdistan

Kurdish intellectuals in Europe unite against PKK, denounce its destructive practices

The pictures of the four abducted children. (Photo: Syrian Network for Human Rights)

Syria

Revolutionary Youth Movement allegedly kidnaps, recruits children in Qamishli, Hasakah

Kurds demonstrate outside UN offices in northeastern Syria against the military recruitment of teenage girls, Nov. 28. 2021 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Syria

Syrian Kurdish opposition group calls on SDF to end child recruitment

Kurds demonstrate outside UN offices in northeastern Syria against the recruitment of teenage girls into Kurdish militias (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)

Syria

Kurdish youth group accused of recruiting 20 underage children: SOHR

Kurds demonstrate outside UN offices in northeastern Syria against the recruitment of teenage girls into Kurdish militias (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)

Syria

Syrian Kurdish Revolutionary Youth Movement continuing recruitment of underage children: SOHR

Child soldiers recruited by PKK. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Middle East

PHOTOS: PKK continues to recruit child soldiers

Kurds demonstrate outside UN offices in northeastern Syria against the recruitment of teenage girls into Kurdish militias (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)

Syria

Pro-PYD youth group continues to recruit minors: rights group

Kurds demonstrate outside UN offices in northeastern Syria against the recruitment of teenage girls into Kurdish militias (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)

Syria

Syria Kurds protest recruitment of teenage girls for combat

Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP)

World

US envoy: Children in conflict taught to commit war crimes

Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP)

World

Conflict violence against children soared in 2020: UN

NGO Fight for Humanity printed flyers and posters in Arabic and Kurdish explaining the 2019 SDF-UN action plan to prevent child recruitment. (Photo: Fight for Humanity)

Syria

Child recruitment by SDF down significantly since 2019, UN says

The SDF has previously signed an action plan with the UN to prevent child recruitment. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Child Protection Office in northeast Syria returns two underage soldiers to their families

Washington to remove Iraq from list of child soldiers offenders: US Officials

world

Washington to remove Iraq from list of child soldiers offenders: US Officials