The 2017 campaign to liberate Raqqa in northeastern Syria from ISIS left the city in ruins. Today, children make up a significant portion of the workforce that is rebuilding. The World’s Shirin Jaafari traveled to Raqqa and met with one family who knows the dangers of this work firsthand.
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