U.S. Launches Airstrikes Against ISIS In Iraq (Updates)

U.S. Bombs ISIS Fighters In Iraq -- CBS News

The U.S. military backed up the Obama administration's vow to keep ISIS militants in Iraq out of a key northern city with at least one 500-pound laser-guided bomb dropped from American F/A-18 fighter jets on Friday. Sources confirmed to CBS News that two of the American jets targeted an ISIS artillery piece that was shelling Kurdish forces near Erbil.



Both jets returned safely to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush after the strike.



Sunni Islamic militants have stepped up efforts to expand their territory in northern Iraq, and their successes this week against what was thought to be the superior fighting force in the oil-rich, semi-autonomous Kurdish region prompted President Obama to threaten airstrikes.



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More News On The U.S. Launching Airstrikes Against ISIS In Iraq

Iraq: US air strike on Islamic State militants in Iraq -- BBC

U.S. aircraft hit Islamic State artillery in Iraq: Pentagon -- Reuters

U.S. launches airstrikes in Iraq -- USA Today

U.S. Planes Start Airstrike on Iraq Militants -- WSJ

U.S. Begins Strikes in Iraq, Pentagon Says -- NYT

US begins air strikes against Isis targets in Iraq, Pentagon says -- The Guardian

U.S. Carries Out Airstrikes Against Islamist Militants in Iraq -- Bloomberg Businessweek

U.S. Launches Airstrike Against Iraq Militants -- Mashable



My Comment: So much for the White House promise a few weeks ago that they would not intervene militarily unless the Baghdad government reforms it's political system. ISIS had other ideas .... and with hundreds of thousands of ethnic and religious minority Iraqis at risk of slaughter and genocide .... the U.S. has been forced into a war that it did not want to return to. This is the slippery slope to a greater involvement .... which I expect will be happening in the days and weeks to come.