The US has sent a company of marines to Iraq, in order to help in the fight against ISIS. The troops will join forces already in the area.
This addition comes a day after it was announced that a marine in the country was killed by ISIS.
In addition, the US military has announced that the coalition against ISIS, which it heads, carried out 16 airstrikes in Iraq yesterday.
There is no information about civilian casualties from the bombings, nor on measures taken to avoid harming non-combatants.