The United States has sent special forces in the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iran. The Mission concludes that there are far fewer civilians than expected. A US-rescue operation was thus become “less likely”.

A U.S. military operation to rescue refugees in northern Iraq is unlikely, according to the Pentagon. Special forces had come to explorations in the Sinjar Mountains to the conclusion that there far fewer people befänden than first thought. After air strikes the USA many had succeeded in the siege by the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) to escape.

The persecuted are after stalling of food and water by US-supplied military better than few days ago, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday evening (local time) with. The Iraqi army is flying the area for days with few helicopters in order to throw off water, food and medicines and absorb people.

The U.S. Army had first sent on Wednesday a special unit in the mountains to get a picture of the situation of there tight people. The UN says 20,000 to 30,000 in the Sinjar Mountains escaped civilians, particularly members of religious minority Yazidi.

Only a few hours before the U.S. government had declared that it was considering an airlift or the establishment of corridors to bring those under threat to safety. Kirby said an evacuation action is according to the new findings “much less likely”. The air airdrops of food and water, however, went further, Kirby said.

US Rescue Mission Iraq:”Without helicopters, people are lost”

How many Yezidis are actually still on the 40 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide ridge is difficult to estimate. Karim Sinjari, the interior minister of the autonomous region of Kurdistan, said on Wednesday told  of about ten thousand people. But he did not specify exactly. “The terrain is very confusing, also will be added in the nights groups of refugees, while others leave the mountains,” said the politician.

The Minister of the Interior sent a dramatic cry for help to the Western world. According to his information, only three functioning helicopters for the evacuation of the most vulnerable refugees were ready. “Without helicopters from abroad, people are lost on the mountain,” Sinjari said.

US Rescue Mission Iraq:New drone attack on IS-position

The TV channel CNN quoted a senior IS commander, the militia had about a hundred women and children of the Yazidi abducted from the Sinjar Mountains. The abductees were in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. However, CNN, adding that the assertion let him not be confirmed by independent sources.

Meanwhile, put the U.S. military continues its air strikes against the Sunni militias. A combat drone had (local time) one equipped with weapons attacked and destroyed truck west on Wednesday evening of Sinjar, shared with the military.

The fighting in northern Iraq against Kurdish extremists are to receive military aid from Europe. As the first EU country France announced as to provide the United States weapons to the Kurds. The federal government now also includes arms sales any longer. In the coalition though highly controversial.

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