Nizar

Leaning on his crutch, Nizar picks through the rubble where the main building of Mosul University used to be, looking for whatever administrative documents can still be salvaged.

At least 250,000 Syrian children are living under siege, with many forced to eat animal feed or leaves to survive, where less than 1 percent of people had received United Nations food last year and only 3 percent received health assistance, Save the Children said March 9, as the war's fifth anniversary looms.