Pentagon Says Airstrikes Have Slowed but Not Stopped Sunni Militants -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — Four days of airstrikes have slowed the progress of Sunni militants laying siege to refugees on Mount Sinjar and advancing toward the Kurdish capital of Erbil, but the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria remains strong and on the offense, the Pentagon said Monday.
While the airstrikes on targets around Sinjar and to the west of Erbil have “slowed and temporarily disrupted” the ability of the militant group, known as ISIS, to attack Kurds in northern Iraq, Lt. Gen. William C. Mayville, the director of operations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that they had not substantially weakened ISIS, and that thus far the attacks seemed unlikely to halt the group’s advances in other parts of Iraq.
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