State (IS) against Kurdish forces defending Irbil
President Barack Obama authorised air strikes on Thursday, but says he
will not send US troops back to Iraq
IS seized Iraq's biggest Christian town of Qaraqosh earlier this week
The UN says 50,000 refugees from the Yazidi religious minority
community are trapped on Mount Sinjar
IS already controls swathes of northern Iraq and has advanced south
towards Baghdad
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