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.

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.

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.