article_snippet.sent: group is also advancing in Iraq, where group has captured three villages near the city of Ramadi.
article_snippet.sent: More than 90,000 people have fled ISIS's advance in Anbar, a United Nations humanitarian agency said earlier this morning.
article_snippet.sent: The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement that civilians are fleeing Ramadi as well as the three nearby villages captured by group a few days ago.
article_snippet.sent: Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, said: 'Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq top priority is delivering life-saving assistance to people who are fleeing - food, water and shelter are highest on the list of priorities.'
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi officials in Anbar have described Ramadi as a ghost town, with empty streets and closed shops.
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias and U.S.-led airstrikes managed to dislodge ISIS, which controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and wants to redraw the map of the Middle East, from the northern city of Tikrit earlier this month.
article_snippet.sent: But Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias and U.S.-led airstrikes have struggled against the militants in Anbar, which saw some of the heaviest fighting of the eight-year U.S. military intervention that ended in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: Elsewhere today, the US-led coalition said Kurdish forces recaptured 11 villages in Iraq's Kirkuk province from ISIS following days of intense clashes.
article_snippet.sent: the US-led coalition said the area of about 25 square miles (65 square kilometers) was south of the city of Kirkuk.