[8] This number more than doubled with the second wave of Iraqi refugees fleeing the country after the February 2006 bombing of al-Askari Mosque in Samarra.
[5] Of the 8,090 Iraqi refugees actively registered with the UNHCR in Lebanon, over half have arrived since 2009.
As a direct result of the instability and violence that followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of Iraqis in the country changed.
[2] Since Iraqis rely on children as a source of income, impacting the enrollment levels for boys and girls.
Other factors, including cost, lack of documentation as well as language difficulties from dialectal differences impact education for this population in general.
[2] Many Iraqis chose to take refuge in Lebanon because of the notion that it was easier to get registered for resettlement in a third country with the UNHCR in Beirut.