UN: 200,000 flee ISIS advance in northern Iraq town of Sinjar
Up to 200,000 people have fled the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, taken Sunday by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS), the UN announced Sunday in fear for their safety.
"A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Sinjar," the UN envoy in Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov said in a statement after the jihadists drove the Kurdish forces out of the city that housed tens of thousands of already displaced civilians.
