Slideshow: Children in Conflict and War Zones

On International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, we look at children in conflict zones.

An injured girl reacts during what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad, in the Bab al-Hadid district of Aleppo, November 30, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

The United Nations (UN) observes every June 4 as The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. Founded to commemorate victims of the 1982 Lebanon War, its purpose expanded to “acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world”, after an emergency special session of the UN Assembly on the question of Palestine in 1982, citing the sufferings of Palestinian children caught in the conflict.

33 years down the line there has been fresh attacks on Palestine, fresh casualties, an alarming number of which are children. 140 children died at the heinous attack on a school in Peshawar, while over 10,000 children have been killed in the Syrian unrest.

We look back at a few faces of innocence, marked by the shockingly cavalier barbarity of war and conflict.