US Special Forces have been working with Kurdish forces on Mount Sinjar in Iraq, targeting a stronghold of the Islamic State organization.
The on-the-ground advisers are part of an international team supporting efforts to re-take Sinjar town, at the base of the mountain.
They are readying an attack by thousands of Kurdish peshmerga fighters.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook says that since November 11th there have been 36 strikes on Islamic State targets around Sinjar.
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