Reports: Airstrikes Near Strategic Dam in Iraq

Missiles and bombs, possibly fired by U.S. aircraft, hit areas near the militant-controlled Mosul Dam in northern Iraq Saturday, Western media reported, as the leader of Iraq’s Kurds appealed for weapons and supplies from Germany and other EU nations. Meanwhile, reports emerged of a possible massacre of dozens of men from the ethnic Yazidi group by radical militants who abducted their wives and children in northern Iraq.   Islamic State has captured wide swathes of northern Iraq...

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