Wounded and alone, children emerge from last Islamic State enclave
DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE - The Iraqi orphan's family had died two years earlier in air strikes across the border in al-Qaim region.
Now 16, he was among the children swept up this week in the civilian evacuation of Baghouz, the last shred of land under the jihadists' control where they are on the brink of defeat at the hands of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces . Hareth said his family had been running a market stall when IS overran their town and they had no links to the group.
"They gave speeches at the mosques, jihad and whatnot," he said. "I was scared of them. My whole family died because of them."
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