Islamic State militants advanced on Iraq’s Mount Sinjar on Tuesday, tightening a siege of thousands of stranded Yazidis, who called on the United States and its allies to act to avert more bloodshed.

The attack is the latest threat to minority Yazidis, thousands of whom have been shot, buried alive or sold into slavery by Islamic State militants, who regard them as devil-worshippers.

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Almost 40 jihadists killed in air strikes by libyan aviation in the last 24 hours in Benghazi.

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Dozens of Houthis were killed, injured and arrested as violence intensified on Monday in Yemen’s central city of Baidha where militants from the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Zaidi Houthi Group continued to fight.

Informed sources said AQAP militants escalated their battles and attacks including car bombs against Houthi militants in the Rada town killing, wounding and arresting more than 80 Houthis.

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Turkey’s foreign minister has confirmed that the country has been providing assistance to Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Peshmerga forces to cross into the Syrian border town of Kobane in order to fight against jihadists.

“We are helping the Peshmerga cross into Kobane. Our discussions are still underway,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu said Oct. 20 during a joint press conference with Tunisian Foreign Minister Mongi Hamdi.

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Syria’s main Kurdish rebel group, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), confirmed Sunday it was fighting alongside other rebel forces against Islamic State (ISIS) in the besieged town of Kobane and other Kurdish areas.

It said it wanted to strengthen this alliance which was essential to defeating the jihadists.

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