The Pentagon said
Wednesday that U.S. airstrikes and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters had broken the
Islamic State’s siege of Mount Sinjar, allowing thousands of the Yazidis trapped
there to escape. (The New York Times, 14 August)
On Tuesday, a dozen U.S. Marines
and Special Operations forces landed on Mount Sinjar to assess the situation
and confirmed that there were far fewer Yazidis on the mountain than expected. The
Pentagon credited U.S. airstrikes and Peshmerga fighters for allowing thousands
of Yazidis to evacuate from the mountains each night over the past several
days.
Photo credit: Displaced
yazidis crossing Iraq-Syria border on Wednesday. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP-Getty
Images/New York Times)
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