The Syrian children maimed in the wake of the Islamic State

Raqqa (Syria), Apr 9 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Ahmed Mardnli). Omar was playing with his friends among the rubble of ravaged buildings in the Syrian city of Raqqa when a stroke of misfortune led him to step on one of the thousands of mines the Islamic State terror organization left behind as its fled its former self-proclaimed capital.
He lost both legs.
The explosion that maimed Omar struck shortly after the liberation of the northeastern Syrian city, once a crown in the jewel in IS's so-called caliphate, which fell to the United States-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in Oct. 2017 after a short but bloody military campaign.