Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 7, 2014.
This evening, at the president’s direction, and at the request of the Government of Iraq, the U.S. military conducted a humanitarian assistance operation near Sinjar in northern Iraq, providing food and water for thousands of Iraqi civilians whose lives have been threatened by armed groups associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
I commend the men and women of the United States Central Command who safely and…
