Fleeing children
, August 8, 2014
Displaced people who fled from the violence in the province of Nineveh, many of them children, arrive at Sulaimaniya province on August 8. The United States began to drop relief supplies to beleaguered Yazidi refugees fleeing Islamist militants in Iraq, but there was no immediate sign on Friday of US air strikes to halt the sweeping advance of Islamic State fighters. - Reuters/Stringer