Syrian women await a distribution of aid in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. Women and girls fleeing Syria say they have been directly targeted in the ongoing conflict.

Bob Carey (far right), International Rescue Committee vice president of resettlement and migration policy, with fellow members of the IRC's Commission on Iraqi Refugees in Irbil, Iraq, in 2010.

This Syrian refugee family in Jordan rarely leaves their apartment due to fear of being discovered by Syrian secret police. They spend much of their time watching the latest news from their home. Like so many Syrians in neighboring Jordan, their expenses are increasing while they deplete their savings.

Police officers in Iraqi Kurdistan attending IRC women's awareness training

A family leaves their house after the building was hit by a Syrian Army tank in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 4, 2012.

The IRC is working with more than 50,000 students across Iraq to provide them access to safe, high quality schooling.

A Baghdad neighborhood in May 2003, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein.