Officials: U.S. airstrikes pound #ISIS militants firing at Iraq’s #Yazidis
American warplanes pounded extremist Sunni fighters in northern Iraq on Saturday in what officials described as an effort to defend minority Yazidis “being indiscriminately attacked,” strikes that came just as President Barack Obama warned of an extended air campaign against the terror group.
The series of airstrikes began with a mix of fighter jets and #drones that targeted militants firing on Yazidis near the town of #Sinjar, where fighters with the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, forced tens of thousands into hiding on nearby #Sinjar Mountain.
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/09/world/meast/iraq-crisis
