United states warplanes target the center of the Yazidi town Sinjar in northern Iraq. According to a Kurdish Yazidi Peshmerga commander on Mount Sinjar, Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas are obstructing US and Yezidi Peshmarga attacks in Sinjar. The commander, Qasim Shashou, claimed that in collaboration with the Peshmerga, US jets have successfully bombed the center of Sinjar and have inflicted heavy losses on the Islamic State (IS) militants.