It will be months before life can return to normal for Iraq's children. Mary Evans looks at how aid workers aim to rebuild the children's lives
It is headline news when coalition troops are injured or killed in Iraq but little mention is made of the millions of Iraqi children suffering from the ravages of war and even less is heard of the aid agencies' efforts to relieve them.
There are no clear figures yet on the numbers of children injured or killed in the war, not least because many are still falling victim to disease while others are being maimed by unexploded ordnance such as landmines and abandoned stockpiles of live ammunition.
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