Iraqi Refugees Flood Into Syria and Jordan

The Iraq war has created nearly two million refugees, and they're going largely ignored by world governments, the UN warns. "There has been an abject denial of the impact, the humanitarian impact, of the war," says a UN refugee agency spokesperson. Most of the refugees stream into neighboring Syria and Jordan, threatening to further destabilize the region.

As of February 2007, the U.S. had taken in only 463 refugees, but promised to up the number to 7,000 after it came under UN sharp criticism. That's less than 1% of the number Syria alone handles. (More Jordan stories.)