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Thousands of Yazidis still trapped on Mt Sinjar: UN
Several thousand civilians remain trapped by militants on Mt Sinjar in northern Iraq and need \"life-saving assistance\", the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
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Iraq/ Washington: Several thousand civilians remain trapped by militants on Mt Sinjar in northern Iraq and need "life-saving assistance", the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
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Members of the Yazidi sect fled 10 days ago after fighters from Islamic State (IS) seized the town of Sinjar. Meanwhile, the US continued with its two-pronged mission in Iraq, hitting the Islamic State (ISIS) targets and providing humanitarian aid to thousands of people stranded on Mount Sinjar.
US military forces successfully conducting air-strikes on four ISIL checkpoints and multiple ISIL vehicles near Mt Sinjar in defence of internally displaced Yazidi civilians in the area, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said. American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed an ISIL checkpoint southwest of Mt Sinjar.A defence department official said that the US air strikes have temporarily slowed the Islamist militants' momentum in Iraq, but are unlikely to stop its overall advances. The Army Lieutenant General William Mayville said the US had no plans to expand the current air campaign in the conflict-torn country, Xinhua reported.
"US Air Force and Navy aircraft have carried out 15 air strikes since President Barack Obama Thursday authorised the military to provide humanitarian assistance to refugees on Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq and to conduct air strikes to protect US citizens in Erbil," Mayville said. While US air strikes have slowed ISIL's (Islamic State or IS) operational tempo and temporarily disrupted their advance toward Erbil, Mayville said the strikes are unlikely to affect ISIL's overall capabilities or its operations in other areas of Iraq and Syria. "I think, in the immediate areas where we have focused our strikes, we have had a very temporary effect," the lieutenant general said.
An American man returning from abroad has been arrested here for allegedly making Twitter postings in support of the dreaded terrorist group ISIS.
