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.

Three million Iraqis are displaced and desperate and tens of thousands of others are in danger because they worked for the U.S. military.

An estimated 1.3 million Iraqis remain displaced in their own country as the U.S. military mission in Iraq comes to an end. Another 1.6 million have fled to Syria, Jordan and other counties in the region. The IRC continues to provide a safe haven to these displaced people and other vulnerable refugees forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution.

It is imperative that vulnerable refugees, particularly Iraqis in light of the U.S. troop withdrawal, have access to resettlement.