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August 11, 2014

Kurdish Forces Retake Towns, Thousands of Yazidis Escape into Syria 
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With U.S. strikes targeting the Islamic State from the air, Kurdish
forces were able to retake two towns in northern Iraq on Sunday. The
U.S. has also dropped emergency relief supplies to tens of thousands of
Yazidis who've been trapped without food or water on Mount Sinjar, near
the border with Syria. A Kurdish official says up to 30,000 Yazidis were
able to cross over into Syria before returning to northern Iraq.

 

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