40% of Syria's children no longer in school

Nearly half of Syria’s school-age children – 2.8 million and counting – cannot get an education because of the devastation and violence from a civil war now entering its fourth year, the UN children’s agency has said.

Most of those – 2.3 million Syrian children who should be in classes – remain within Syria’s borders, as education and health services collapse and classrooms are bombed or used as shelters and military barracks, Unicef said in a new report that shows the tragically expanding effects of a conflict on the region’s youngest victims.