USA launches aerial humanitarian mission in Iraq

A senior American official told CNN that the United States has launched air humanitarian mission in northern Iraq.

"Now, the planes are in the air, but they have not yet begun to issue aid. To protect their fighter planes were built, "the American official said.

Food aid by air and medication will be sent to about 40 thousand people in northern Iraq, who are dying of heat and thirst in a mountainous area, after receiving death threats from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Levant) (ISIS -ISIL).

Earlier, a Kurdish official had said that American warplanes have bombed at least two targets ISIS extremists, but this was immediately dismissed by Pentagon spokesman Admiral John Kirby, who wrote on Twitter that reports of attacks were completely false.