Politician begs world to help Iraq's Yazidis
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Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst
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Kurdish forces and Islamic State fighters were clashing in a town only 40 kilometres southwest of the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil in northern Iraq, a senior Kurdish official said on Wednesday.
Jabbar Yawar, secretary-general of the ministry of the Kurdish peshmerga fighters, told the Reuters news agency military cooperation had been re-established with Baghdad in a bid to hit back against the Sunni fighters who staged another dramatic push through the north over the weekend.
Yawar said 50,000 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority who fled the offensive and are hiding on a mountain near the town of Sinjar risked starving to death if they are not rescued in 24 hours.
Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...cca985-3396-41bd-8163-7a52e5e72064_story.html