Five years after President Bush declared the Iraq War “Mission Accomplished,” more than 4.7 million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes –about 15% of Iraq’s population or the populations of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Washington DC combined. Five years later, the humanitarian crisis in Iraq is still one of the most underreported catastrophes of the Iraq war and it’s not getting better.

This is the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East since 1948 and was directly caused by the U.S. invasion. Yet, the United States has done little to alleviate this massive humanitarian crisis.  Fewer than 6,000 Iraqis have been resettled in the U.S. since the war began.

Just on Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released a survey of Iraqi refugees in Syria. 95 percent of respondents said they “fled Iraq because of direct threats or general insecurity” and only 4 percent of the respondents had any plans to return home.

This New York Times article outlines several UN aid workers' concerns that the crisis in Somalia is being forgotten because it's not as popular as the crisis in Darfur.

"Unlike Darfur, where the suffering is being eased by a billion-dollar aid operation and more than 10,000 aid workers, Somalia is still considered mostly a no-go zone. Just last week, a Somali aid worker and a guard were shot to death at an aid distribution center in Afgooye. United Nations officials estimate that total emergency aid is under $200 million, partly because it is so difficult just getting food into the country."