Kurdish Gov’t, Fighting ISIS, Asks for Airstrikes and Humanitarian Aid

The foreign minister of Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region appealed Wednesday for the U.S. and others to provide military and humanitarian help in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL). The jihadists’ violent campaign across northern Iraq is placing the lives of tens of thousands of people, many of them children, in grave jeopardy. Read