WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military aircraft dropped meals and water for Iraqis threatened by Islamist militants in northern Iraq, a senior U.S. defence official said on Thursday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the supplies were dropped near Sinjar, an area that some Iraqi minorities call home in the far northwest of the country.
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