U.S. Drops Aid to Iraqis; Militants Are Hit -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — United States military aircraft on Thursday dropped food and water to thousands of Iraqis besieged by Islamic militants on a mountaintop in northern Iraq, a senior Pentagon official said.
The military made the announcement after the supplies had been delivered and the planes had left the area. President Obama was scheduled to discuss the mission in a televised address Thursday night.
Kurdish and Iraqi officials said that airstrikes had begun Thursday night on towns in northern Iraq seized by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but Pentagon officials denied that American forces had begun a bombing campaign. They said it was possible that allies of the United States, either the Iraqi or Turkish militaries, had conducted the bombing.
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