US senior coordinator for Iraqi refugees, James Foley, answers reporters' questions outside the Syrian Foreign Ministry offices after his meeting with deputy foreign minister, Faisal Meqdad in Damascus on June 24, 2008. UNICEF called last week for more help from donors for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugee children living in desperate circumstances and deprived of education. The United Nations Children's Fund said in a statement released in Berlin that 850,000 youngsters in Iraq had been driven from their homes with their families in 2006 alone and were now seeking shelter. AFP PHOTO/LOUAI BESHARA