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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Airstrikes near insurgent-held dam in Iraq as 80 Yazidis reportedly massacred

German's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaks to the press upon his arrival at the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool) IRBIL, Iraq - Airstrikes pounded the area around Iraq's largest dam on Saturday in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month, as reports emerged of the massacre of some 80 members of the Yazidi religious minority by Islamic extremists.




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