Northern Iraq and Mount Sinjar

Mount Sinjar: Canada, France and Australia were among the nations standing by to assist as fears grew about a humanitarian crisis taking shape on Mount Sinjar , in northern Iraq, according to The Star. But on Wednesday, a small team of U.S. soldiers that had deployed to Mount Sinjar to scout the area as a possible prelude to a large-scale operation to get the refugees to safety reported back with a surprise appraisal and A U.S.-led humanitarian effort to rescue stranded Iraqis who took refuge atop a mountaintop to flee Islamist militants appears in doubt after American soldiers found fewer refugees than expected in need of help. Its there that thousands of religious minority Yazidis had fled to escape Islamic State militants advancing through their villages in the northern region of the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.