Sinjar Mountains

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  Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report

  The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.

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  Kurdish Forces Prepare for Battle to Retake Iraq's Sinjar

  Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering US-led air strikes.

• Turkey, Iraq Pledge More Military Cooperation in Fight Against Islamic State

  Turkey and Iraq, both worried by the advance of Islamic State, pledged on Thursday to work towards greater military cooperation in their fight against the ultra radical Sunni militants.

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  Kurds Advance Against Islamic State Group in Syria, Iraq

  Kurdish fighters advanced on the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, pushing into the contested, refugee-packed Sinjar mountains and gaining ground in the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane after heavy clashes, Kurdish officials and an activist group said.

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  Iraqi Kurds Liberate Besieged Sinjar Mountain, Freeing Hundreds

  Kurdish peshmerga fighters have fought their way to Iraq's Sinjar mountain and freed hundreds of people trapped there by Islamic State fighters, a Kurdish leader said on Thursday.

• About 4,500 Atop Iraqi Mountain, Say US Officials

  Two US officials say that roughly 4,500 people remain atop northern Iraq's Sinjar Mountain, and nearly half are herders who lived there before the siege and have no interest in being evacuated.

• US Says Rescue Mission for Iraq's Yazidis Less Likely After Visit

  A US mission to evacuate Iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain by Sunni militant fighters is far less likely after a US assessment team sent there on Wednesday found the humanitarian situation not as grave as expected, the Pentagon said.

• US Mulls Airlift, Rescue Corridor for Trapped Iraqis

  The United States is studying possibilities to help the civilians trapped on a mountain in northern Iraq by the advance of Sunni militants -- including possible humanitarian corridors or air lifts.

• Photo of Boy Holding Decapitated Head is Barbaric: Australia PM

  The image was posted on Twitter and showed the boy, believed to be the son of Sydney jihadist Khaled Sharrouf, The Australian newspaper said, adding that the boy was aged 7.

• US Weighs Options to Evacuate Desperate Yazidis from Iraqi Mountain

  The United States is exploring options to evacuate thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped on a barren mountain in northern Iraq by Islamic militants, after four nights of humanitarian relief airdrops, US officials said on Sunday.

• Britain Airdrops Humanitarian Aid for Besieged Iraqis

  Britain has begun airdropping food and water to thousands of civilians stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq after fleeing jihadist militants a week ago, officials said Sunday.

• British Aid Drops Expected 'Imminently' in Iraq

  The first consignment of British aid to civilians sheltering in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq is expected to be dropped "imminently", Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Saturday.

• Hunger, Jihadists... and Bees: A Tale of Survival in Iraqi Mountain

  When Fares Sinjari Abu Ivan saw the Iraqi military helicopter dropping the promised supplies, he thought he would have some food to give his mother for the first time in two days.