Way too many…

U.S. officials say al-Qaida in Iraq is increasingly turning to children because there has been a decrease in foreign fighters and, of course, the fact that they’re easier to convince than adults. Some of these children are pressured to do the militants’ bidding by their own families because they can get good money for their efforts. The U.S. military apparently tries to keep child detainees separate from the adults and has begun new educational programs to try to change their ways but the increased number of boys in custody is bound to raise more questions about the detention facilities and lack of proper judicial oversight.

Although Maliki had spoken up against the criticism levied by U.S. officials last week, his comments yesterday “appeared to reach a new level of stridency,” says the NYT, which notes the prime minister also spoke up against the French foreign minister. “There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages,” Maliki said, according to the Associated Press translation. USAT notes “it’s unclear whether al-Maliki intended a reference to Clinton’s” book It Takes a Village (the NYT translates the word as “cities”).

NYT = New York Times

USAT = USA Today

Uganda in Africa

https://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/guest.nsf/nochild_soldiers?OpenForm&campaign=1256080&cmp=KNC-1256080

there are kids at war, i am pretty sure iraq is one example

here is a website but just google children of war or children at war something like that and you will get some good resulrs

sudan, congo

http://web.amnesty.org/wire/September2003/DRC