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Why so many children are fighting in Yemen’s war

 Abdullah Ali’s 15-year-old son disappeared from home one morning three months ago. A week later, the boy called his horrified family to say he had joined the insurgents known as Al Houthis — becoming one of a growing number of underage soldiers fighting in Yemen’s civil war.“He’s just a child. He’s only in the ninth grade,” Ali, 49, a civil servant who lives in the city of Taiz, said recently. “He should be at school learning, not fighting.”