Officials: More U.S. advisers being sent to Iraq - CNN.com
Faysh Khabur, Iraq (CNN) -- [Breaking news alert, 5:30 p.m. ET]
More than 100 additional U.S. military advisers are being sent to northern Iraq to look at humanitarian relief options for the tens of thousands of minority Yazidis who fled the advance of ISIS fighters, U.S. officials told CNN on Tuesday.
[Original story published at 2:45 p.m. ET]
Iraqi chopper taking trapped Yazidis to safety crashes
An Iraqi helicopter being used to bring aid to trapped Yazidis on Mount Sinjar crashed Tuesday, state-run Iraqiya TV reported.
The New York Times, which had two journalists on the flight, said between 20 and 25 Yazidi evacuees were on the chopper.
The pilot died, but others survived, the Kurdistan Regional Government said. Kurdish rescue crews transported them to safety, bringing the injured to hospitals, the government said.
The military cited "technical failure" in the crash of the MI-17.
Fuad Hussein, the Kurdish Regional Government's chief of staff, told CNN the situation appeared to have been caused by pilot error.
Survivors included a woman who has come to symbolize the struggles of Yazidis, one of the minority groups facing nightmarish slaughter from the group calling itself the Islamic State.
Vian Dakhil, the only Yazidi in Parliament, appealed to the government last week for help in stopping the slaughter of her people.
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