Growing Up in War, Iraqi Kids Are Hopeful But Wary
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His heroes may be the same as any  11-year-old living in Europe or the United States, but the rest  of Mowaffaq Abbas' life could hardly be more different.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- A mother's sad wail pierced the stillness of the Cemetery of the Martyrs, where green and black resistance flags fluttered over the graves of hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen. Kneeling on the hot, chalk-like dirt, Abbas Sabah, 17, didn't stir. His mind was focused on his brother...
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BAGHDAD -- Hanna is 10. She lives on a U.S. Army base here, playing computer games while her mother cleans. She has no playmates. Her mother is frightened to send her to school. If other students learned of her contact with Americans, "she would be kidnapped or killed."
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BESLAN, Russia -- When ''the storm&quot; finally arrived as the adults feared it would, the bullets started flying, the bombs were exploding, and most of the children were unsure what to do.
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Youssif, the 5-year-old burned Iraqi boy, has already made great strides. He laughs and plays, doing the things little kids are supposed to do. CNN.com's Wayne Drash reports the boy has even left a major fear behind. "I'm not even scared of fire," Youssif said.
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A look at the difficulties some Iraqis can face in trying to escpape their violent homeland.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 26 -- In a light-filled lobby of a hospital for sick children, an American mother talked on Monday with an Iraqi father about how their lives had been altered and entwined by a war thousands of miles away.
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Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.
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Iraqi actors hoped the fall of Saddam  Hussein would herald a new era of artistic freedom. But they  have seen their dreams destroyed by violence.
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Baghdad -- Some of the children cry. Some refuse to speak, shivering in shock at the day&#39;s horror. Others lie lifeless in the morgue at Yarmouk Hospital.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives - and why the U.S. should let more in
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Fed up with car bombs and   death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of   Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, decided one day to pack   his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan.
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It was the marching that got him. Soldiers thump-thump-thumped in unison across the pavement. To the child, then no more than eight years old, solidity flowed from their boots. They infected him with an awe that, even after the span of a decade and the encroachment of a war, has not darkened.
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Three and a half years after the American invasion, young people from five different Baghdad neighborhoods say it is no longer possible to make plans.
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In the dusty plains of western Iraq, al-Qaida is gaining strength. Daily attacks against U.S. and Iraqi forces are on the rise, and there is little sign of progress in persuading the population to support the national government. U.S. commanders acknowledge they are locked in struggle with insurgents for the allegiance of Iraq's youth.
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The grim monotony of waiting had been punctuated only by stomach-churning sounds &#151; the clatter of gunfire, the boom of grenade launchers. Then came an announcement that gripped parents with a forgotten emotion: Hope.
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A few dozen Iraqis being trained in forensics carry on their shoulders the hopes of millions of their countrymen hoping to discover the fate of relatives who disappeared under the regime of Saddam Hussein.