Despite stinging military defeats and enormous financial strains, Islamic State (IS) is working to imprint a lasting legacy on children through increasing in-classroom training in areas it controls and an aggressive social media campaign. In its self-proclaimed caliphate, IS is schooling thousands of children in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and other places in radical, anti-Western thought and ways of terror, VOA has found in interviews with activists, local officials and analysts.
With its Caliphate Faltering, Islamic State Rushes to Indoctrinate Children
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Young boys recite the Quran as part of Islamic State-run school curriculum.
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Middle-school students being taught at an Islamic State-run school in Raqqa, Syria.
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School children in an Islamic State-run boot camp.
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Young boys receive lessons in the Quran during Ramadan.