Obama: Islamist Arms And Equipment Destroyed

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="story__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="story__standfirst" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-bottom: 40px; max-width: 64%;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US strikes at targets in Iraq as witnesses say 300 Yazidi families are being threatened with execution by militant fighters.</span></div> <div class="last-updated" style="bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 40px; max-width: 40%; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: right;"> <div class="last-updated__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"> <span class="last-updated__time" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">18:35, UK,</span></span><span class="last-updated__day" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span class="last-updated__day" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saturday 09</span> <span class="last-updated__month-year" style="box-sizing: border-box;">August 2014</span></div> </div> </header><div class="story__content-outer-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Earlier the Pentagon said that two F/A-18 aircraft from a carrier in the Gulf had dropped laser-guided 500-pound bombs on the fighters' artillery.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The advance of IS, previously known as ISIS or ISIL, has forced up to 50,000 people from Iraq’s Yazidi community from their homes in the north east into the Sinjar mountains.</span></div> <div class="image image--inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 1em; max-width: 540px;"> <div class="image__wrapper image__wrapper--4x3" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 405px; position: relative;"> <img alt="" class="image__item js-responsive" data-breakpoint="" data-sizes="91x68 300x225 480x360" data-sizes-wide="" data-template="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/9/328333/default/v1/bombing-composite-1-{width}x{height}.jpg" src="http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2014/8/9/328333/default/v1/bombing-composite-1-480x360.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the US was now working out, together with its allies, how to create a "safe corridor" that would allow Yazidi people trapped in the mountains to be moved to safety.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US president, who was about to head to Martha's Vineyard on holiday, said that the IS advance had been faster than expected and that it would take "some time" to solve Iraq's problems.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among the most urgent needs, he said, was for Iraq to form a stable government that could work out how to tackle the problem of IS for itself.</span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/090814IRAQHAMMONDInterviewMcCaffrey14301407600743321700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/090814IRAQHAMMONDInterviewMcCaffrey14301407600743321374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I'm not going to give a particular timetable, because as I've said from the start, wherever and whenever US personnel and facilities are threatened, it's my obligation, my responsibility as commander-in-chief, to make sure they are protected," he said.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He repeated comments he made earlier on Saturday, during his weekly address to the nations, that  US combat troops were not going to be dragged into fighting another war on the ground.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two British cargo planes are due to drop supplies including tents, blankets, food, water and solar lanterns "imminently", UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.</span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/090814IraqHollyWilliamsGrab1407586519903700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/090814IraqHollyWilliamsGrab1407586519903374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The British minister said that the UK was fully supportive of the US operation.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr Hammond said: "We can expect a continuing drumbeat of airdrop operations working in co-ordination with the US and potentially with others as well.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 540px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"But more widely we are looking at how to support this group of people and get them off that mountain, how we are going to facilitate their exit from what is a completely unacceptable situation."</span></div> <div class="module module--inline video" data-format-high="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/700/2014/08/090814IraqGuestsDebate13001407589503556700.mp4" data-format-low="http://video.news.sky.com/video/h264/vod/374/2014/08/090814IraqGuestsDebate13001407589503556374.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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