Wednesday, August 27, 2014

US confirms more than 100 airstrikes in Iraq

The U.S. Central Command is confirming, it has conducted an additional three airstrikes in Iraq, in the
vicinity of Irbil and the Mosul Dam.

The U.S. military is also working on a proposed second humanitarian mission in Iraq, this time focused on the beseiged town of Amirli, where 15,000 are holed up just outside the Kurdish Regional Government's security zone.

At the same time, airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Syria remain a possibility as Priscilla Huff reports:

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