ARBIL, Iraq: President Barack Obama has ordered US warplanes back into Iraqi skies to stop jihadists from moving into autonomous Kurdistan and carrying out a potential genocide against displaced minorities.

The US air armada's first mission was to drop food and water to thousands of people who have been hiding from the Sunni extremist militants in a barren northern mountain range.

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