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Iraq


Girl holds her fathers prayer beads in Afghanistan. credit-Andrew Quilty-Save the Children

Childhood in conflict: loss and resilience in Afghanistan and Iraq

Tuesday 2 April 2019Tuesday 2 April 2019 by Dan Stewart

Heading into the villages outside Kabul, snowy mountains rise into the distance ahead. Sand-coloured walls broken up by solid metal gates line both sides of the...

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Thoughts from the Global Disability Summit

Tuesday 24 July 2018Tuesday 24 July 2018 by Kevin Watkins

It’s a tough confession to make, but I’m just not an enthusiast for international development summitry. Hard as I try, the pre-baked communiques, the...

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A young girl hugs her father in Mosul, Iraq.

Iraq: what do Mosul’s children want to make disappear?

Thursday 6 July 2017Thursday 6 July 2017 by Dan Stewart

We asked 65 children who had lived under ISIS, “If you could put into a magic bag anything that makes you feel sad, scared, or upset, what would it be?”

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Mosul’s children: “I have bad dreams of dead bodies”

Wednesday 5 July 2017Thursday 6 July 2017 by Yara Rodrigues Fowler

New research by our experts shows children who have escaped Mosul are deeply traumatised after years of living under ISIS and in war. Read more

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Stay or flee? Families trapped in Mosul face a brutal choice

Tuesday 21 February 2017Tuesday 21 February 2017 by Save the Children

As Iraqi forces push ahead with a new offensive to retake western Mosul, 350,000 children are trapped inside the city. Families in Mosul face a brutal choice:...

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Alone in Iraq: What’s next for Syrian refugees?

Tuesday 14 February 2017Tuesday 14 February 2017 by Melissa Pearce

After his world was torn apart by the effects of war, Zana was forced to flee his home in Amuda, Syria, in 2013. Now his days in a refugee camp in northern Iraq...

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Hope as families escape ISIS in Iraq

Friday 11 November 2016Thursday 24 November 2016 by Mike McCusker

As we give out supplies in Tikrit, Iraq, a joyful scene plays out. People who have escaped Islamic States are reunited with their families.

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Iraq: Islamic State recruiting children as young as 12 as fighters

Monday 7 November 2016Monday 7 November 2016 by Yara Rodrigues Fowler

IS has recruited children directly from schools - parents in Iraq tell us. They teach children how to behead people and make suicide bombs. Read more.

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Iraq: children shot at and blown up by landmines

Thursday 13 October 2016Thursday 20 October 2016 by Mike McCusker

Children fleeing Isis in Iraq are being killed by landmines. And right now 600,000 are estimated to be trapped, Mike McCuckster writes from Iraq.

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