More than 1,500 schools have been damaged or destroyed in clashes in Iraq’s troubled Anbar province alone, AFP reported.
“Anbar has been hit badly ... More than 1,500 schools have been partially or completely destroyed,” Eid Ammash, spokesman for Anbar’s provincial council, told AFP
"Most of these schools were targeted directly by the criminal gangs of Daesh … Others are places that Daesh used as bases and were targeted by the Iraqi security forces and the coalition air force, or were simply on the frontline of the fighting," he said.
Anbar, Iraq’s largest province is currently the focus of a large-scale military offensive and daily airstrikes by the Iraqi government to reclaim the territory from Daesh militants who seized large swaths in the beginning of 2014.
The latest figures from the UN say more than 70 percent of Iraq’s displaced children do not have access to education.
