US jets bombarding targets in Iraq: McClatchy Report

US jets bombarding targets in Iraq: McClatchy Report

Obama meets with his national security advisors.

The US military has reportedly attacked the ISIL militants inside Iraq amid reports that President Barack Obama was considering such attacks.

McClatchy reported early Friday that a resident of the town of Kalak, 25 miles northwest of Irbil, told the newspaper that jet aircraft attacked ISIL positions outside Kalak.
In a phone conversation with the paper, the resident said she had seen the aircraft and had heard the explosions, adding that because it was dark she could not see any markings on the aircraft.
According to Kurdish television, the bombers were American.
The Kalak resident said that her relatives near Sinjar had been told to stay away from the city and that many Sinjar residents were moving to leave the city.



However, Pentagon spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby called reports that the US had conducted airstrikes in Iraq “completely false.”
“No such action was taken,” he said in a message posted on Twitter.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that US President Barack Obama is considering airstrikes in northern Iraq where thousands of people are stranded on a barren mountaintop without food or water after death threats from ISIL terrorists.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest rejected Washington’s plans for bombing militants in Iraq, saying the US has no military solution to the ISIL threat in the country.
"There are no American military solutions to the problems in Iraq," Earnest told reporters on Thursday. "These problems can only be solved with Iraqi political solutions.”