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Blogging Baghdad aims to provide a dynamic look at the story behind the story of covering the news in Iraq. Online entries – from text to video blogs – will detail the realities of daily life for ordinary Iraqis, American troops and the media living and working in a 24 hour war zone.

Regular contributors include NBC News correspondents, producers and staff on assignment in Iraq.

Click here to read more about the journalists behind Blogging Baghdad.

More on Iraq's orphans

For readers who appreciated Richard Engel's blog and story on NBC Nightly News about Iraq's orphans, Dateline NBC aired an extended version of Richard's Nightly News story on Friday, Sept. 1. Click below to see the video and read some of Richard's previous blogs about Baghdad's Alwiya orphanage.

Dtl_engel_orphans_060718Video: They are afraid and alone, witnesses to more violence and death than most adults see in a lifetime. Richard Engel tells us the heartbreaking experience of meeting orphaned Iraqi children. Will anyone save them?

To read Richard's blogs about the orphans please visit the following links on the blog:

Needed Love for a Baghdad orphanage

How to help Iraq's orphans

Adoption obstacles

Laughter punctuated by heartbreak 

We received hundreds of emails asking how to help Iraq's orphans.The following are links to non-governmental organizations that are working with children in Iraq. If you are interested in contributing to them, please visit their websites or contact them directly.

Unicef Programs in Iraq: www.unicefusa.org/iraq

1-800-4-UNICEF
U.S. Fund for UNICEF
333 E. 38thStreet
6th Floor
New York, NY 10016

No More Victims

Childhood Care and Sponsorship Organization in Iraq

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So many times we tend to forget the "real casualties" of this war - "All the children left behind, either home or in Iraq". We have become to "used" to hearing about the loss of life in this conflict, that we've become so immune to it, especially when it doesn't necessarily affect us directly. Then once in a while there are those journalists such as Mr. Richard Engle who bring it all at back into perspective in such a "humanistic approach" by telling a news story that not only provides us with an "accurate tale" of some of the worse cassualties of this war, but telling in it a way that makes us not see the these foreign children as enemies, but as "children who need our help an support". Children who in no way have fault for what what has happened. Children who do not have fault for what the "adults and so called leaders" of either country have caused. These are simply children who have been robbed of a peaceful existence not through actions of their own, but through the outcome of war. We cannot forget these children...thanks to this story, I am going to get involved and find a way to help.

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