child soldiers

“I thought about death. I thought about my family having no idea where I was. I thought I was going to be killed.”

"Whoever refuses to fight is killed," one child soldier said.

Based in war-torn Mogadishu, the initiative uses the ocean and riding waves to help communities ravaged by years of violence and suffering.

Trump has been locked in an escalating war of words with Ball – a brash, self-promoting businessman – since Ball’s middle son, LiAngelo Ball, was released with two of his UCLA teammates from a Chinese jail earlier this month.

This year’s outbreak was more deadly than almost every previous outbreak combined.

He was 13 and meant to kill him. Instead, they escaped and later reunited in Canada.

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The charity Child Soldiers International warns that young girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo are joining militias—and are doing so of their own volition.

'Wolf Boys,' a new book by Dan Slater, details the bloody rise and fall of two Texas teenagers who became contract killers for the Zetas, the most violent drug cartel in Mexico, killing dozens of people in the process.

Nicolás spent his adolescence as a soldier in Colombia's FARC rebel forces. As a peace accord nears, his story provides a glimpse of the deep scars left by the country's half-century-long conflict.

One of two girls found strapped with explosives in Cameroon on Friday claimed to be one of the schoolgirls from Nigeria kidnapped nearly two years ago, but it now looks increasingly unlikely.