Meet the people on the frontlines of the devastating crisis.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC), under the ECHO-funded Protection Consortium of Iraq (PCI), has released a new Rapid Needs Assessment analyzing protection needs and access to essential services in IDP-hosting and displacement-affected districts across Iraq. The assessment was designed and led by the Protection & Rule of Law (PRoL) Program at IRC Iraq.

When ISIS targeted the Yazidi minority in Sinjar, Iraq, Suleiman and his family escaped to the mountains, eventually finding shelter in a refugee camp in Syria.

Boubacar Tahirou has experienced both unimaginable loss and remarkable transformation in his 45 years.

Fighting in northwest Syria, including Idlib, has uprooted nearly a million Syrians—triggering the largest displacement in the country’s nine-year-old war.