Kurdish troops aided by Yazidi fighters and U.S. air support captured a strategic highway from the Islamic State as they continue toward reclaiming the town of Sinjar, reports The New York Times. Meanwhile, the Obama administration wants to designate ISIS’s attacks on the Iraqi Yazidis as “genocide,” according to Yahoo.

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