Iraq faces humanitarian crisis after militants’ surge

A refugee girl stands perplexed outside the refugee camp. (Source: AP)

A woman carrying her baby is migrating from her house in Mosul. An estimated half a million residents fled Mosul, the economically important city. (Source:AP)

An Iraqi refugee man from Mosul walks in Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil. (Source: AP)

An Iraqi refugee girl from Mosul stands inside her family's tent at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil. (Source: AP)

A child stands in the refugee camp area. (Source: AP)

An eldery man walks down the refugee camp with his family. (Source: AP)

An elderly Iraqi refugee smokes a shisha pipe as he sits outside his family's tent at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil. (Source: AP)

n Iraqi refugee woman from Mosul sits outside her family's tent at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaida breakaway group, took over much of Mosul in Iraq and then swept into the city of Tikrit further south. (Source: AP)

A kid refugee sits outside the tent in refugee camp. (Source: AP)

Children play with an Iraqi Army helmet left behind after militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took over the northern city of Mosul. (Source: AP)