WorldA record number of children were killed in Syria last year, more than a third of them in or near a school, the U.N. children's agency said ahead of the sixth anniversary of the war. More than 850 children were also recruited to fight - more than double the number in 2015 - with some used as executioners and suicide bombers, UNICEF said. Millions of children in Syria come under attack on a daily basis,” the agency's regional director Geert Cappelaere said in a statement from Homs in Syria. ”... trauma and displacement leave children with emotional scars that can dramatically inhibit their ability learn,” said IRC's CEO David Miliband. “We are storing up huge problems for tomorrow if we do not give Syrian children the resources they need to heal, develop and thrive.”REUTERS

Source: Sunday Times March 14, 2017 05:03 UTC