US officials: About 4,500 atop Iraqi mountain

August 14, 2014 21:26

Two US officials say that roughly 4,500 people remain atop northern Iraq's Sinjar Mountain, and nearly half are herders who lived there before the siege and have no interest in being evacuated. The officials said a US team who spent time on the mountaintop reported numbers far smaller and circumstances less dire than feared.

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