5.5m children affected by war in Syria, says UN

A Syrian man cries while holding the body of child who was killed following a government air strike in Aleppo.

The number of children affected by Syria’s war doubled in the past year to 5.5 million, the UN said, a heartrending picture of an entire generation on the verge of being lost.

And in a report entitled Under Siege — the devastating impact on children of three years of conflict in Syria, UNICEF warned that the situation was likely to get worse.