Four fighter planes without pilots and planes attacked a convoy of seven vehicles near the city of Irbil.
Air strikes in Iraq began in the early hours on Friday, after the authorization granted by President Obama, who expressed his determination to fight militants who are put at risk thousands of people in northern Iraq.
Marie Harf, spokeswoman for the State Department told the BBC that "the current goal is to prevent attacks of militants, who tend to approach the city of Irbil. In a longer-term plan will work to help Kurdish forces to retake territory and to fight militants, "Harf said.
While John Kerry, Secretary of State said the campaign of terror against innocent people is warning a genocide.
Ministry of Human Rights in Iraq has announced that hundreds of women have been captured by militants and were held in several schools in Mosul, the city's second largest in Iraq.
After taking control of the city Qaraqosh ISIS, which is the largest city of the Christians in Iraq, members of the Yazidi minority were forced to leave their homes and take refuge in the mountains. According to American officials, the militants have controlled the largest dam in Iraq, which is vital, as controls the level of the river Tigris, and is a major source of water and electricity production for the Iraqi people.
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