Nearly 13,000 children have been killed or injured since the start of the war in Syria. One-third of all recorded injuries and deaths are caused by encounters with landmines and other remnants of war.

At least 3 million Syrian children under the age of 6 have only known war, and millions more have grown up in fear during the conflict. “Some of the things we were surprised by are the numbers ...

The War Against Syria's Children. Published Dec 02, 2013 at 7:20 AM EST Updated Apr 22, 2014 at 5:03 PM EDT. Syria’s violence is creating a lost generation of maimed, frightened, uneducated kids ...

Syria's Children of War. As the death toll reportedly tops 23,000 after 17 months of violence between Bashar Assad's regime and the rebels, Syria's youngest residents have been caught in the ...

DARAYYA, Syria — The children of Darayya, scattered across Syria by war, grew up with secrets: why only their mothers ever came to the school gates; that their fathers had been killed, and who ...

Before the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, medical professionals participated in an estimated 96 percent of deliveries in the Middle Eastern country. But as the six-year-long civil war ...

More than a third of schools in Syria have closed since the war began six years ago; a recent report found more than 1.7 million children and youth are not attending classes. David Miliband of the ...

Up until the age of 8, I had a normal, happy childhood in Syria. It was a simple life with my family and Syria was beautiful. It had rich resources. Then, in 2011, the war began. Life became ...

Syria’s civil war began in 2011, leaving thousands of Syrians exiled and displaced, and others lacking access to food and shelter. According to UNICEF, around 5 million children need help coping ...