Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
The National: Kurdish teens settle into life on the frontline in Sinjar

Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
While neighbouring Kurds make headlines, tensions simmer quietly in Iran as an exiled Kurdish group seeks to capitalise on growing discontent.
As Iraqi forces in Mosul engage in some of the fiercest fighting yet against ISIL, Florian Neuhof takes a look at life […]
Bitter cold, few comforts, civilians that give their position away and no end in sight for the Ukrainian soldiers pitched against separatists […]
As Iraqi forces push into ISIS-held Mosul, desperate civilians are on the run from snipers, booby traps and suicide bombers.