CAIRO-The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting on Iraq, where Islamic extremists seized more northern territory Thursday. The United States is also working to sendhumanitarian assistance to the war zone, but senior officials say no American military action in Iraq is under consideration. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the latest fighting, […]
WHITE HOUSE-President Barack Obama says America “is coming to help” thousands of Iraqis who are trapped and threatened by Islamist militants, and has authorized air strikes and humanitarian flights over northern Iraq. President Obama spoke hours after U.S. military aircraft dropped relief supplies to help thousands of Iraqis stranded on Iraq’s Mount Sinjar without food […]
U.S. officials are signalling that they are willing to work with Iran to solve the crisis taking place in Iraq, but say they will await information from Iran as to what they are willing to do to tamp down the escalating violence as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria continue to take territory in […]