ISIS using 600 boys as human shields, warns US-backed militia in Syria

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in north-east Syria warned Sunday that the terrorists were using more than 600 boys detained in the complex as human shields.

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The fight to retake the prison, the Syrian Democratic Forces said, was constrained by the militants use of the young detainees as human shields.

"The Syrian Democratic Forces holds ISIS terrorists responsible for causing any harm to these children in prison," the militia said in a statement. It said the prisoners had used the prison guards' own guns to kill some of them after the siege began.To try to quell the uprising, a US military official said, Apache helicopter gunships launched airstrikes and conducted low-altitude flights in a show of force.

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