'A Catastrophe': Yazidi Survivor Recalls Horror Of Evading ISIS And Death -- CNN
Irbil, Iraq (CNN) -- Which is worse: Running desperately for your life, or seeing others' lives end without enough to eat or drink?
It's an impossible question to answer. Then again, it's difficult to fathom most anything thousands of minority Yazidis have endured in recent weeks as they've fled from ISIS militants into remote, rugged, sparse mountains of northern Iraq.
"With my own eyes, I saw dogs feeding off dead bodies," one of those Yazidis, a man named Tariq, told CNN.
"It's not a crisis. It's a catastrophe."
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Thousands From Iraq Minority Flee to Syria -- AP
We Need an Army: Iraq Refugees in Erbil Urge Obama to Do More -- NBC
Iraq crisis: save us from death -- The Telegraph
Iraq conflict: US aid drop follows fresh raids on militants -- BBC
Iraqi refugees 'facing genocide' to receive UK airdrop of aid -- The Guardian
'Isis has shattered the ancient ties that bound Iraq's minorities' -- The Guardian
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