Three hundred babies a day are killed before their first birthday as a result of conflict, a charity believes.
Research by Save the Children found that more than half a million infants have died because of war and unrest in the last five years.
Some 420million children - almost one in five around the world - are living in areas affected by conflict, the highest level since 1990.
The grim death toll does not show children directly killed in fighting but looks at knock-on effects including starvation, disease and damage to hospitals.
Cost of conflict: Three children walk home from school in Mosul's Old City in northern Iraq where much of the housing has been reduced to rubble
It also does not account for the many more children who are horrifically and permanently wounded by war.
Yemeni boy Saleh, 12, suffered dreadful burns when a mortar bomb hit his house in the city of Taiz.
Describing his injuries after a year-and-a-half in hospital, he said: 'I got buried and screamed, and tried to get the fire off me.
'I was asleep and woke up burned. My mother started screaming and came to me while I was on fire.'
His mother Kalima said: 'Every now and then he had to have another operation.
'I had jewellery, I had gold. I had two sets of earnings, five bracelets, two long chains and a small necklace set. I sold them for my son.
Young victim: Saleh, 12, was badly burned after he was hit by a mortar bomb in his home in Yemen. He has been in hospital for a year and a half since the attack
Family torn apart: Khalida, 42, sits with her sons Hassouni, nine, and Sameer, seven, in their home in Mosul. The mother of seven lost two children, during the operation to re-take Mosul from ISIS in 2016
Place to play: Children play near their homes in Mosul's Old City in Iraq which has been severely damaged during the battle with ISIS
'He used to have more pain before the operations. He couldn't lie down or rest. He used to get up and sit like this and cry. And I would sit and cry with him.'
In Iraq, nine-year-old Hassouni was left with a paralysed hand and shrapnel in his skull after falling into a coma in Iraq.
He stopped going to school after it was badly damaged by an airstrike and his family were then hit by a car bomb, which killed his two brothers.
'When the bomb went off, everyone died. I got hit in the head, arm and back. When I try to play or write my arm hurts me,' he said.
His mother Khalida said: 'My children died in vain, hungry and thirsty, they never harmed anyone.
'Every day my grief is renewed. Every day I say I will forget, God willing, but the longer the years pass, I remember them more.
'My children died deprived. We were under siege here. They hadn't seen anything. If they wanted to eat something, they couldn't eat anything.
'If they wanted to get dressed, we couldn't clothe them. We barely had the means to sustain our livelihood.'
Suffering: Saleh, 12, with his mother Karima, younger brother and sister. His parents took him to a hospital in Taiz governorate where he stayed for three weeks, then transferred him to Sana’a governorate where he stayed for a year and a half.
Desperate: A child working in collecting scrap metal from ruined buildings in West Mosul, Iraq, carries some scavenged items
Children play near their homes in Mosul's Old City. Families are returning but much of the basic infrastructure is still lacking
The charity's research found that at least 550,000 deaths of children under the age of one could be attributed to the effects of conflict between 2013 and 2017.
Youngsters in Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Iraq, Mali, Nigeria and Somalia were the hardest hit.
Child deaths rose to 870,000 when all children under the age of five were included.
By comparison, the charity estimates that almost 175,000 fighters or soldiers were killed in the conflicts over the same five-year period.
Kevin Watkins, CEO of Save the Children, said: 'The UK should be using its global influence to protect children living in war zones.
'From Yemen to Syria and South Sudan, children are bearing the horror of armed conflict.
'Some are treated as collateral damage in urban bombing. Others are deliberately targeted for killing, abduction and recruitment by armed groups.
'Millions go hungry because humanitarian aid is obstructed.
'Britain should send a clear message to the world: the war on children must end, and those who commit crimes against children will be held to account.'
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Main photo article Three hundred babies a day are killed before their first birthday as a result of conflict, a charity believes.
Research by Save the Children found that more than half a million infants have died because of war and unrest in the last five years.
Some 420million children – almost one in fi...
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