announced he had authorized
them.
when two u.s. f-18 fighter jets
bombed a piece of isis artillery
as well as the vehicle that was
pulling it.
according to the pentagon, isis
has been using that artillery to
shell kurdish forces fighting to
save irbil, capital of
kurdistan, which has found
itself under siege by isis
forces.
u.s. has also dropped a second
round of aid packages into the
mountains.
it's where thousands of yezidis,
religious minority in iraq, are
trapped without food and without
water.
isis cut the roads off trying to
starve the fleeing civilians to
death and threatening to kill
anybody who came out of the
mountains.
nbc news has not been able to
independently confirm this, but
the "associated press" is also
reporting now that hundreds of
yezidi women in mosul, the
second largest city of iraq,
that hundreds of yezidi women
there have been taken captive by
isis.
last night, the president said
that although u.s. will not be
entering war, no boots on the
ground, it is coming...