DOHUK, Iraq: US troops assessed the situation Wednesday of thousands of civilian refugees trapped by jihadists on a northern Iraqi mountain, after the United States carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants.

A US military official said the small party of special forces soldiers returned safely to base.

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