UN: Iraq Islamists using children as suicide bombers

Militias allied to the Iraqi government are also using children to combat the jihadists and “numerous children” detained by the government went missing after militias stormed the prisons in July, she added.

World governments and the United Nations have repeatedly accused Islamic State fighters of atrocities since they overran large swathes of Iraq and Syria in June.

New UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said in Geneva earlier that the Islamic militants were creating a “house of blood” in the zones that they control.