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How do you find a missing child in one of the most dangerous places on earth?

From BBC Sounds, BBC Asian Network & CBC. Syria. 2018. ISIS is on the brink of defeat. A boy is lost in the chaos. In London his grandad needs answers. Poonam Taneja investigates.

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From BBC Sounds, BBC Asian Network and CBC. Syria. 2018. ISIS is on the brink of defeat. Two-year-old Salmaan disappears amid the bombardment. In London, his grandfather desperately searches for answers. After the war against the Islamic State was won, what became of the children of its fighters? There are thousands of kids like Salmaan, with roots in Canada, the UK, the US and beyond - they were taken to IS or born there. Now they are trapped there without a way back home. Investigative reporter Poonam Taneja has covered the terror group for a decade and now embarks on a dangerous journey to find out what happened to Salmaan and all the kids like him, left behind in the Syrian desert. And she speaks to the grandparents trying to get them home.

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Poonam travels to the last place Salmaan was seen alive.

Poonam travels to Baghuz. The place where IS made its last stand and near where Salmaan was last know to be living.

Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time?

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