British and American forces landed Wednesday on Iraq's Mount Sinjar, but plans to airlift as many as 30,000 starving and dying Yazidi refugees thought to be stranded there are not likely moving forward. That's because most of the people are no longer there. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement that 'there are far fewer Yazidis on Mt. Sinjar than previously feared, in part because of humanitarian air drops [and] air strikes on [ISIS] targets.' Also helpful, he said, were 'the efforts of the Peshmerga and the ability of thousands of Yazidis to evacuate from the mountain.'
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US  Marines and special forces flew in on black hawk helicopters days after Obama promised no boots on the ground
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Also reported SAS soldiers were in the area to 'gather intelligence'
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It is first confirmation that international forces were on Mount Sinjar
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But the US Defense Secretary suggested that there are few refugees left there
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Pentagon says Yazidis are in better condition than previously thought
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