U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that ISIS has been responsible for genocide against communities mainly for their faith.
The militant attack on religious minorities in the Middle-East could cause them to be wiped out, according to the French Foreign Minister.
A helicopter carrying journalists and a parliamentarian that was delivering aid to Yezidis stranded on the Sinjar Mountains crashed after trying to take off again.
A new report has said that the Kurdish militia known as the pesh merga refused to confront the Islamic State, choosing instead to flee and leave thousands of Yezidis at the mercy of IS.
President Barack Obama has suggested that the airstrikes and humanitarian aid drops he recently authorized in Iraq may go on for months.
President Barack Obama has authorized airstrikes in Iraq in an effort to slow the rapid advances of the Islamic State throughout the country.
