UNICEF: Children in NE Syria prison live in dire conditions

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency says children held in a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants are living in “incredibly precarious” conditions and they should not have been there in the first place. UNICEF added in its Sunday statement a day after a visit by one of its teams to the prison in the northeastern city of Hassakeh that the agency is ready to help support a new safe place in Syria’s northeast to take care of the most vulnerable children, some of whom are as young as 12.