The United States says it has carried out airstrikes and dropped humanitarian aid in the Iraqi town of Amerli to protect an ethnic minority that one official says faces the threat of an "imminent massacre." The town of Amerli, which has been besieged by ISIS fighters, is home to many of Iraq's Shiite Turkmen. To help the trapped people, the United States has carried out humanitarian airdrops, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said late Saturday. Australia, France and the UK also participated in the aid drop. The U.S. military conducted "coordinated airstrikes" against ISIS targets as part of an effort to support the humanitarian operation, Kirby said.
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U.S. begins aid drops to Iraqi town surrounded by ISIS, the Pentagon says
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says ISIS has sold Yazidi girls and women
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About 300 have been abducted, the rights group says
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Syria monitors: ISIS sees them as "captives of the spoils of war with the infidels"
At least three Iraqi soldiers were killed Saturday in a suicide car bombing south of @placeholder's capital, police said, dealing a blow to the military in that area for a second straight day as government forces fight ISIS militants across the country.