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...million have left their homes for other areas within Iraq. According to the International Organization for Migration only 22% of internally displaced people in Iraq have regular access to the government food distribution, which is "broken, at best," says the IOM's Dana Graber Ladek, a displacement specialist in Amman. "Security has improved in Baghdad and Anbar, but is the humanitarian crisis over...
...that humanitarian projects cannot be easily monitored because of a lack of security. For the handful of foreign NGOs currently in Baghdad the situation is frustrating, they say, because of the lack of direct contact with their Iraqi beneficiaries. "You are dependent on secondhand information - you could be in Amman or Washington or Paris," says Guy Siri, who says he can count the number of international aid agencies in Baghdad on one hand...
...work at TIME'S Baghdad bureau, a victim of a new insurgent strategy to murder Iraqi interpreters working with U.S. companies. Faeza moved to Syria and then Jordan, where she applied for refugee status with the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Amman. It took another two years before the U.N. granted her refugee status, and her case was referred to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which handles country placement for refugees. She told IOM that she wanted to go to the U.S.; it had been Omar's dream that Khattab would be able to grow...
...departure lounge for commercial flights from Amman, Jordan, into Baghdad is made up almost entirely of men, sizes XL through XXXL. Most wear baseball caps; all have long faces, sitting silently. When boarding is announced they arise, and like buffaloes stampeding in soft slippers across tiled floors, shuffle into one thick, single-file line...
Reports of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad fill Adnan and Noora Awadi with envy and nostalgia. The young couple--whose names have been changed, since they fear reprisals if quoted in the media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back to their leafy street in al-Yarmouk, a middle-class neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell...