80 Yazidis killed in Iraq by ISIS

• Militants entered the village of Kocho and committed a massacre, says a Iraqi official
• Airstrikes near militant held Iraq dam: Residents

Baghdad: Details emerged of a "massacre" carried out by jihadists in a northern Iraq village on Saturday, as world powers ramped up efforts to cut their funding, arm Kurds battling them and assist those they displaced.

Dozens of civilians were killed, most of them followers of the Yazidi faith, officials said as the Islamic State(ISIS) group fighters pressed their offensive against minority groups in the north. Militants entered the village of Kocho on Friday and "committed a massacre," senior Iraqi official Hoshyar Zebari told AFP, citing sources from the region and intelligence reports."Around 80 of them have been killed," he said. A senior official of one of Iraq's main Kurdish parties said 81 people had lost their lives, while a Yazidi activist said the death toll could be even higher. The village lies near the northwestern town of Sinjar, which the jihadists stormed on August 3 sending tens of thousands of civilians, many of them Yazidi Kurds, fleeing into the mountains to the its north.

They hid there for days with little food or water.

Fear of an impending genocide against the Yazidi minority, whose faith is anathema to the Sunni Muslim extremists, was one of the reasons Washington cited for air strikes it began on August 8.

Meanwhile, residents living near Iraq's Mosul dam, held by the ISIS, say the area is being targeting in airstrikes. residents say the airstrikes hit on Saturday afternoon.The Islamic State group seized the dam on the Tigris River on August 7 as part of their offensive that's seized large swaths of Iraq. The residents near the dam say the airstrikes killed militants, but that could not be immediately confirmed.