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The ISIS orphans

Thousands of young children of ISIS fighters who came from abroad to join the battle have been left to fend for themselves after their parents were imprisoned or killed on the battlefield. Stranded far from home, with no documentation, many ISIS orphans have ended up in orphanages in Mosul and the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. And […]

Chris Brown writes for CBC News:

Thousands of young children of ISIS fighters who came from abroad to join the battle have been left to fend for themselves after their parents were imprisoned or killed on the battlefield.

Stranded far from home, with no documentation, many ISIS orphans have ended up in orphanages in Mosul and the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

And perhaps no country is trying harder to get its children back than Russia.