The United States military has conducted airstrikes on ISIS targets and airdropped humanitarian aid to the besieged residents in the Iraqi town of Amerli, the Pentagon says.
Australia, France and the UK also participated in the aid drop.
ISIS fighters have besieged the town of Amerli, 70 miles north of Baquba, since the Sunni extremists swept into Iraq from Syria in mid-June. Its 17,400 residents are enduring harsh living conditions with severe food and water shortages, and are without power. Ref. CNN
Iraqi forces 'advance against IS fighters':
Fierce battles rage on outskirts of Tikrit amid reports of Islamic State fighters withdrawing. Are American Troops Already Fighting on the Front Lines in Iraq?
The Pentagon is denying that U.S. Troops are fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq-but eyewitness accounts and Kurdish officials tell a different story. Ref. Source 1
Just like Vietnam and Korea, the US should have never invaded Iraq in the first place. It was just a waste of lives.
Want to know something funny? It's always the President and Senators who decide to go to war. Yet, it's always the American soldiers who put their lives on the line. Maybe if the President and Senators were forced to fight on the front lines and experience war first hand, then they'll finally get smart enough to stay out of wars?
U.S. Military Conducts Airstrikes In Support Of Irbil Operations
US Military News
U.S. military forces continued to attack terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in support of operations near Irbil, Iraq.
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Cost Of War
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,883
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,469
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan - Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
1,562,726,253,044
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to endorse the new Iraqi government hours before President Barack Obama will address the American people about his strategy for combating ISIS militants.
Baghdad is Kerry's first stop on a regional tour to enlist Arab support for a global coalition to defeat ISIS.
"Almost every single country on Earth has a role to play in eliminating the ISIL threat and the evil that it represents," Kerry told reporters Monday on the eve of his departure, using an acronym for the group, which now calls itself the Islamic State.
Kerry said the United States would assemble a coalition "Built to endure for the months, and perhaps years, to come." Ref. CNN
Airstrikes Hit ISIL Near Mosul Dam
US Military News
U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL terrorists in Iraq, employing attack aircraft to conduct two airstrikes in support of Iraqi security forces near the Mosul Dam.
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