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Iran sends Afghan child soldiers to fight in Syria

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan children, supported by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), are fighting against Syrian government forces, a global rights group says.

In a report issued on Sunday, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said its research was based on photographs of tombstones in Iranian cemeteries where combatants killed in Syria had been buried.

One of the graves in Tehran's Behesht-i-Zahra cemetery is of a 14-year-old Afghan boy killed in Syria. Several other Afghan child soldiers had been killed in . . .

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