US conducts air strikes on ISIL positions in northern Iraq

US forces continued their attack on ISIL militants in northern Iraq with three more air strikes conducted on Monday the Sept 1, 2014. The operation was conducted under authority to protect US personnel and facilities, support humanitarian efforts, and support Iraqi forces that are acting in furtherance of these objectives.

Iraq war : Shia and Kurdish forces advance against ISIL

Iraq crisis: Shia and Kurdish forces advance against ISIL

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is carrying out despicable crimes and has transformed rural areas of [the northern region of] Sinjar into blood-soaked killing fields in its brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non-Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims. Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them civilians, and more than a million have been forced to flee their homes.