WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team including personnel from the U.S. military and the U.S. Agency for International Development landed on Iraq's Mount Sinjar early on Wednesday to assess how to evacuate civilians, a U.S. official said.
The official said the team flew in darkness early in the morning to the mountain, where thousands of people, including members of the Yazidi religious minority, have fled to escape an advance by Sunni fighters from the Islamic State militant group.
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