SYRIA. Derek. August 10, 2014.
An exhausted and weak Yazidi child rests next to makeshift tents set up in a camp for displaced Yazidis on the outskirts of Derek, a Kurdish-controlled town in Syria that is located at the foot of the Sinjar Mountains along the border between Iraq and Syria.
Thousands of Yazidi families have fled their villages in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq and sought refugee in the nearby mountains as ISIS militants moved into their area. The only way for this families to reach the safety of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq is through a safe corridor in Syria that is controlled by Syrian-Kurdish militias.