Civilians Flee War As ISIL Frontline Shifts Following Kurdish Sinjar Offensive

SINJAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 16: Civilians flee from their ISIL or Daesh-held frontline village to a Kurdish-controlled area on November 16, 2015 to Sinjar, Iraq. Peshmerga forces carefully screened the displaced Iraqis as they arrived, fearing enemy infiltrators and suicide bombers. Kurdish forces, with the aid of massive U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, liberated Sinjar from ISIL extremists, known in Arabic as Daesh, moving the frontline south. About a thousand villagers in Ghabosyeh fled north to Kurdish held territory, to take refuge camps or onward as refugees to Turkey or Europe. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)