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World Service,06 Mar 2016,49 mins

How I.S. Recruits Children for Terror

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UN-backed report suggests that militants from the so-called Islamic State are normalising children to violence by making them watch executions and play football with severed heads; A billionaire Iranian businessman -- who helped Tehran evade sanctions on oil sales -- has been sentenced to death for stealing some of the proceeds; A wounded warrior's story told through forty five objects. (photo: Young Syrians belonging to the so-called 'Islamist Police' made up of local citizens, former opposition fighters as well as army defectors control cars in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on September 2, 2013. Credit: MEZAR MATAR/AFP/Getty Images.)

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