Updated Aug. 14, 2014 2:45 p.m. ET
President Barack Obama said the situation on an Iraqi mountainside where members of a religious minority were besieged by Islamic militants had improved enough so that more U.S. aid drops were unlikely. But some local officials and families that have escaped said thousands of refugees were still hiding there and in need of help.
A U.S. assessment team that spent nearly 24 hours on the mountain concluded Wednesday that a large number of the trapped members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority had already managed to flee,...
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