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Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:07 AM

A refugee woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sits with a child inside a tent at Nowruz refugee camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria August 17, 2014. Proclaiming a caliphate straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State militants have swept across northern Iraq, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes. Picture taken August 17, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:06 AM

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, wait to board a bus to re-enter Iraq from Syria, at Nowruz refugee camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, August 17, 2014. Proclaiming a caliphate straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State militants have swept across northern Iraq, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes. Picture taken August 17, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:03 AM

Refugees from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, take part in a protest to call for their evacuation from the Middle East and an end to what they say is violence against their community, at Nowruz refugee camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, August 17, 2014. Proclaiming a caliphate straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State militants have swept across northern Iraq, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes. The sign in the middle reads: "We want to get out of the Middle East". Picture taken August 17, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:06 AM

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:01 AM

A refugee from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, carries a sign referring to the Kurdish People's Defence Units (YPG) at Nowruz refugee camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, August 17, 2014. Proclaiming a caliphate straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State militants have swept across northern Iraq, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes. The refugees were calling for their evacuation from the Middle East and an end to what they say was violence against their community. Picture taken August 17, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:39 PM

Twitter account belonging to a media organisation supporting the Islamic State says dam still under the group's control

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:37 AM

Hamas flags fly from atop the remains of the house of Hussam Kawasme, a Palestinian who Israel suspects of the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in June, after it was demolished by Israeli troops in the West Bank City of Hebron August 18, 2014. Israeli troops on Monday demolished the homes of two Palestinians it suspects of the abduction and killing of three teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June, the army said. Troops set charges to destroy the homes of Hussam Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha in the southern West Bank before dawn and sealed off the home of a third suspect, Marwan Kawasme, the army said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)