UNICEF is saying that illegal armed groups in Colombia are recruiting far more children, with verified cases quadrupling in five years.

The Houthis have increased child soldier recruitment following Hamas's Oct. 7 attack. The militia is using Palestinian solidarity to attract young recruits in Yemen. Despite pledges to end child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colombian soldiers stand in formation as war material seized from a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...

On the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, we reiterate the importance of protecting children from the ravages of war, as we witness ...

Photographer Cedric Gerbehaye documents a transit center in Ituri District, where the UN and the government of Congo struggle to re-integrate former militia members back into society A boy soldier ...

BOGÓTA, Colombia, April 20 (UNHCR) - Elisa* was born and grew up in a culture of violence, and in the end it left her confined to a wheelchair yet lucky to be alive. But the former child soldier is ...

EXCLUSIVE - Israel’s army recently found damning documents, video footage and photographs of Palestinian children used by two U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as ...

The frontlines of Ukraine are criss-crossed by anti-drone nets to protect both soldiers and civilians.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Child soldiers are still being recruited in at least 13 countries from Afghanistan to Uganda, 10 years after international guidelines were agreed to eradicate their use, according to ...

Ishmael Beah defends his memoir and goes home to Sierra Leone. Aug. 5, 2008 — -- Ishmael Beah wears the scars of Sierra Leone's civil war as his own. In what was once the poorest country on earth ...