these are the faces of sheer desperation, people like you, these were doctors and pharmacists and mechanics and hairdressers running for their lives, leaving syria where it is war and isis that threatens their every breath and trying to make it to europe. today refugees at a holding camp along the hungarian serbian border decided enough. they broke through the police line and they ran for freedom with children and elderly. i mean, children, carrying children. cnn s war damon was with them when they took off for safety. we re running now with these migrants and refugees who just broke out of the holding area right along the border with serbia. the police are literal ly right behind the man in front trying
nic robertson, cnn, saudi/yemen border. iraqi prime minister s first visit will focus on the battle against isis. al abadi to meet president obama in the white housen the coming hoursen fact. mr. abadi toemd reporters he ll ask for more. he wan isis controls about 1/3 of iraq. isis withdrew from tikrit recently. but the fighting is far from over. awar damon reports the president s trip to washington, comes as the country copes with tax on a number of friend. isis is tryinging back and hard. this video posted by isis shows thick plumes of black smoke rising from the oil refinery. the refinery had been under government control for months.
this 11-year-old boy was allegedly shot in his home. this video shows the body of a child lying in street street. amid intense gun pyre and as others tried to recover his body. and here children lie wounded and in the hospital after security forces fired at their school bus. hansa s death prompted internation international outrage. we are all the martyr the child the 60,000 followers by tuesday. the face of the 13-year-old from a village in southern syria now the symbol of an uprising. war damon, cnn, beirut. cnn made repeated attempts to reach out to the syrian authorities in damascus for comment on the death of hamsa without success. medical examiner told syrian tv that there was month evidence that the boy had been tortured
we ve heard accounts of rebels pulling back under fire in one case under forces who waved a white flag signifying surrender. cnn s war damon is in the rebel-held town of ras lanuf. she joins me by the phone. arwa, can you set the scene for us there? reporter: yeah, randi. what we re beginning to see here are just how the dynamics of the battlefield are shifting as these opposition forces push towards gadhafi s hometown and an area that is filled with gadhafi loyalists. now, the forces got to an area called um al gundel 60 miles to the west of sirte. we were tailing behind them when all of a sudden we noticed them streaming down the highway beating a hasty, chaotic retreat, firing their 50-caliber machine guns into the air, firing all sorts of small arms fire. when the situation finally came under control, quite a distance from what the front line was, one of the fighters told us that when they went into this area
the ground that led us to believe he would be coming. and then while we were there, the air strikes happened very close to tripoli. and that s when that s when it appeared he wasn t going to show up. you get the impression by not being seen on television, not trying to give away any clues, any indications where he is at the moment. what sort of building he is in because it would he would feel likely he could feel right now he would be target for an air strike. he is keeping his location highly kept secret, it would appear. nic robertson, thanks so much, in tripoli. let s get to war damon who is back in benghazi. we are being told effectively a no-fly zone is in place. what are you seeing and hearing? reporter: well, what we did see earlier in the day was the aftermath of the french air strikes that eyewitnesses say took place at 5:00 in the