(AP) A 49-year-old woman from Sweden has been charged with war crimes and breaching international law for allegedly assisting in getting her son to fight in Syria as a child soldier, Swedish public prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The woman, who has been in custody in Sweden since September, is suspected of helping recruit one of her sons — born in 2001 — to fight as a child soldier while they lived between 2013-2016 in Syrian territory once controlled by the Islamic State group.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement this is the first time that the country has brought war crimes charges against an individual for abetting in recruiting child soldiers.
