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...
Thoughts from the Global Disability Summit
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...
Iraq: what do Mosul’s children want to make disappear?
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?”
Mosul’s children: “I have bad dreams of dead bodies”
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
Stay or flee? Families trapped in Mosul face a brutal choice
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:...
Alone in Iraq: What’s next for Syrian refugees?
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...
Hope as families escape ISIS in Iraq
As we give out supplies in Tikrit, Iraq, a joyful scene plays out. People who have escaped Islamic States are reunited with their families.
Iraq: Islamic State recruiting children as young as 12 as fighters
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.
Iraq: children shot at and blown up by landmines
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.