This Syrian refugee washes her family’s clothes in cold water from the tank in front of her tent in Domiz camp, northern Iraq. Barbed wire fences in the camp are festooned with clothing drying in the dim winter sun. 

A Syrian Kurdish refugee family peers from their tent in Domiz camp, northern Iraq. The father clasps a camp registration document, which enables the family to receive a tent, food, electricity and water.

These women and children are among 48 family members who fled violence in Syria and now live in this cement-block structure in Mafraq, Jordan, without plumbing or electricity.

This infographic from our recent report on the crisis in Syria shows the vast numbers of Syrians who are displaced within the country or who were forced to flee to neighboring countries to escape the ongoing violence. View larger.>>

Jihan Bakar, 43, with her children, from left: Zakaria, (8), Adar (3) and Zekra (7). Her husband was killed by a bomb in Syria. The family now lives in a refugee camp in northern Iraq.