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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/world/middleeast/iraq-yazidi-refugees.html?_r=0
Islamic Militants' Siege on Mountain in Iraq Is Over, Pentagon Says
(New York Times) Helene Cooper and Michael D. Shear - Defense Department officials said Wednesday that U.S. airstrikes and Kurdish fighters had broken the Islamic militants' siege of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, allowing thousands of Yazidis trapped there to escape.