Desperate families storm barbed wire fence to escape from ISIS killers

Backed by allied rebels and air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish militia have pressed their offensive on the ISIS-held Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, advancing to within three miles of it.
The militia have also seized at least 20 villages southwest of the border town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Turkish troops watched on helplessly yesterday as heavily-armed ISIS terrorists blocked the border crossing at Tal Abyad, where some 13,000 civilians have crossed over the past ten days. The men, women and children were stopped at gunpoint almost within touching distance of the border town of Akcakale. Pictured: Women clutch their children as they slip through a gap in the fence (left); a father helps his child over the wire as they attempt to reach safety (top right) and one young girl is pulled through the barbed wire as she tried to flee the ISIS-held town (bottom right).