U.S. conducts air strikes on militants near besieged Iraqi town
 

The United States carried out air strikes on Saturday against Islamic State fighters near the besieged Shi'ite town of Amerli in **rthern Iraq and dropped humanitarian supplies to civilians in the area, the Pentagon said. President Barack Obama authorized the operation to prevent an Islamic State attack on residents of Amerli. Amerli has been surrounded by Islamic State forces for more than two months. Iraqi army and Kurdish forces closed in on Islamic State fighters on Saturday in a push to break the Sunni militants' siege of the town.

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