subscribe http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6vNxlhH3WMh3re1TayaEwBREAKING: Official: U.S. Begins Humanitarian Mission in Iraq BREAKING: NYTimes reports US airstrikes in northern Iraq on ISIS targets. Pentagon says "completely false" BREAKING: American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq (NY Times) DOHUK, Iraq — American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish areas, Kurdish officials said. Word of the bombings, reported on Kurdish television from the city of Erbil, came as President Obama was preparing to make a statement in Washington. Kurdish officials said the bombings targeted fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. Residents who had fled those areas by car were heard honking their horns in approval. But Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Twitter that the reports of the bombings were false. Iraqi Yazidi people who fled their homes in Sinjar took shelter at Bajid Kandal refugee camp in Dohuk Province on Thursday. Obama Weighs Airstrikes or Aid to Help Trapped Iraqis, Officials SayAUG. 7, 2014 Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, took refuge on Thursday in Dohuk province. Rebels Capture Iraq’s Largest DamAUG. 7, 2014 Obama administration officials had said earlier in the day that Mr. Obama was considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 members of religious minorities in Iraq, who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop where they took shelter after death threats from ISIS. Obama could announce airstrikes or humanitarian air drops in Iraq within hours. Obama Is Considering Airstrikes To Help Tens Of Thousands Of Iraqis Trapped On A Mountain. (Business Insider) President Barack Obama is considering airstrikes and emergency-relief airdrops of food and medicine to aid approximately 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq threatened by advances from the extremist Islamic militants. The New York Times reports Obama is mulling his options amid the budding "humanitarian crisis." The extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has threatened tens of thousands of Iraqis who belong to the Yazidi religious sect who are trapped on Mount Sinjar without access to food, water, or other aid. It has given the Yazidis a near-impossible dilemma - leave and risk being killed by the militants, or stay and hope aid comes their way. The options Obama is considering include aid drops on Mount Sinjar or airstrikes against the ISIS militants at the base of the mountain. "We have been working urgently and directly with officials in Baghdad and Erbil to coordinate Iraqi airdrops to people in need," a senior Defense Department official told Business Insider. "The Government of Iraq has initiated air drops in the region, and we are in constant communication with them on how we can help coordinate additional relief, enhance their efforts, and provide direct assistance wherever possible." The Times reported the Obama administration had not wanted to intervene militarily in the crisis until Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stepped down and a new government was put in place, but the urgent situati

• published: 08 Aug 2014
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