Strikes. U. S. Fighter jets and drones struck several isis to defend trapped on the mountain. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent Keira Simmons is on the ground in iraq. He filed this report this morning. Kurdish forces are battling with isis on the outskirts of this city embolden by the usairstrikes to take out some of that isis equipment that was so threatening. This city under threat, a bill that prompted president obama to act. Now, there are blood curdling stories from iraqs human rights minister saying that 500 members of the community have been killed saying that he believes 300 women have been kidnapped and even telling terrible stories about some people being married alive by isis. Little wonder that the civilians are so frightened that so many of them flee and there is such a sense that this city has to be protected. The question, of course, is if those battles between the kurds and isis combined with the air strikes do not push isis back what does the west do then . That was keir
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