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The article discusses U.S. drone aircraft strikes and F-18 fighter jet strikes against Sunni Muslim militants in Iraq aligned with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Islamic extremist organization. Topics addressed include U.S. efforts to stop ISIS's advance toward the Kurdish capital city of Erbil, Iraq, as well as U.S. president Barack Obama's reasoning for authorizing the strikes.

The article discusses U.S. president Barack Obama's ordering of airstrikes against Sunni muslim militants in Iraq aligned with Islamic extremist organization the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Topics addressed include U.S. efforts to stop ISISs' advance towards the Kurdish capital city of Erbil, Iraq, as well as Obama's concerns that failing to act could lead to a situation similar to the 2012 attack of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The article reports that the American officials in Iraq are considering the Iranian request to let an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Iraq to visit five captured Iranians. The Iranians were made captive by American soldiers in a raid in Erbil, Kurdistan on January 11, 2007. They were captured during the American military operations to nab those involved in illegal operations in Iraq.

The article discusses the impact of U.S. airstrikes against Sunni Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist organization, noting Kurdish forces' counterattacks against ISIS. Topics include political instability in Iraq due to the expiration of a deadline for Iraqi President Fouad Massoum to select a replacement for Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, as well as U.S. efforts to protect the Yazidi ethnic minority and the Kurdish capital city of Erbil, Iraq.