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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