Islamic State group kill 80 Yazidi men: Report

ERBIL: Iraqi officials, on Saturday, said that survivors of an Islamic State group attack on a northern village told them the militants killed over 80 Yazidi men there, warning that the minority group remains in danger.

The officials, a Yazidi lawmaker and an official with Kurdish security forces, said that the attack happened on Friday afternoon in the village of Kocho. Both said that they based their information on the accounts of survivors.

Kocho is in an area held by the Islamic State group where journalists cannot operate.

Islamic State group fighters besieged the village for several days and gave its Yazidi residents a deadline to convert to Islam, Yazidi lawmaker Mahma Khalil said on Saturday.

"When the resident refused to do this, the massacre took place," Khalil said.

Halgurd Hekmat, a spokesman for Kurdish security forces, on Friday night said that the militants captured women and children of Kocho and took them to the nearby city of Tal Afar, which is controlled by the Islamic State group.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical. They also consider Shia Muslims as apostates.

The United Nations, in recent days, declared the situation in Iraq a "Level 3 Emergency" — a decision that came after some 45,000 members of the Yazidi religious minority were able to escape from a remote desert mountaintop where they had been encircled by Islamic State fighters.

The UN said it would provide increased support to the Yazidis and to 400,000 other Iraqis who have fled since June to the Kurdish province of Dahuk. A total of 1.5 million people have been displaced by the fighting.

Meanwhile on Saturday, Britain's ministry of defence said that it had deployed a US-made spy plane over northern Iraq to monitor the humanitarian crisis and movements of Islamic State militants. It said the converted Boeing KC-135 tanker, called a Rivet Joint, would monitor mobile phone calls and other communication.

Two British planes also landed on Saturday in Erbil carrying humanitarian supplies.

Khalil, the Yazidi lawmaker, said the US must do more to protect those fleeing the Islamic State group.

"We have been calling on the US administration and Iraqi government to intervene and help the innocent people, but it seems that nobody is listening," Khalil said.

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