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The United Nations children’s agency reported that 14 million children in Syria and Iraq are in crisis due to war.

The number of children needing aid has greatly increased from the previous year and there are fears that living with the severe violence will permanently scar the young generation.

Here is a look at recent photos depicting the lives of children during this conflict.

Pupils attend the first day of school in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.

Syrian boys play with a BB gun in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus.

Wounded Syrian children react as they wait for treatment at a clinic in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following reported air strikes by regime forces.

Syrian refugee children attend class in a UNICEF school at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria.

A Kurdish fighter walks with his son in the center of the Syrian border town of Kobane.

A displaced Iraqi Sunni girl who fled with many others due to fighting between Islamic State (ISIS) group militants and government forces surrounding the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, cries after arriving at an army camp in the city of Samarra to take refuge.

Syrian children walk through the debris in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following reported air strikes by regime forces.

Mourners chant slogans against the Islamic State group during the funeral procession of three members of a Shiite group, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or League of the Righteous, who were killed in Tikrit while fighting Islamic militants.

An injured child sits on a bed in a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Douma eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus.

Syrian children reenact scenes with knives, they said to have seen in Islamic State videos, in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma.

Syrian girls, carrying school bags provided by UNICEF, walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings on their way home from school.

Turkish actress Tuba Buyukustun (3rd R), goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, speaks with Syrian refugee children as she visits a UNICEF center.

A woman and her child sit in a military vehicle as she returns home at the town of Tal Ksaiba, near the town of al-Alam, Iraq.

Pupils run through a damaged wall for the first day of school in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.

Syrian refugee children stand in the corridor at the Al-Rama Public School that is home to 22 Syrian families in Wadi Khaled in the Lebanese-Syrian border village of Al-Rama, north Lebanon.

Displaced Syrian children gather in a classroom in a school that has been turned into a temporary shelter in the Qudsaya neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria.

A Syrian child receives a vaccination against polio during a campaign organized by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) in the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

A Syrian refugee child clears snow on a snowy day in Istanbul, Turkey.

A Syrian child sits in the back of a truck loaded with furniture as residents collect what's left of their belongings from their apartments.

Yazidi refugees in their accommodation in a refugee camp in Erbil, Iraq.

A Syrian man carries a wounded child at a makeshift clinic following reported air strikes by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the rebel held area of Douma.

Syrian refugee children who fled violence in Kobani, collect water at a camp in the border town of Suruc, Turkey.

An injured child reacts in a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Douma.

Kurdish children stand in the center of the Syrian town of Kobane.

A boy carries bread as he makes his way through rubble of damaged buildings in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus.

An injured Syrian child waits for treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel held area of Douma, north east of the capital Damascus.