BAGHDAD: US jets attacked jihadists who have besieged civilians on an Iraqi mountain for a week, as France and Britain Sunday joined a desperate race to save them from starvation.

Two days after Washington deployed its airforce over Iraq, a coordinated Western aid effort was shaping up to avert what US President Barack Obama warned could be an impending genocide.

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