US forces headed for Iraq mountain: Kurdish spokesman

US military advisors in Iraq are headed for Mount Sinjar to study means of evacuating civilians who have been trapped there by jihadists, a spokesman for the Kurdish peshmerga forces said today.

Around 130 US military advisors have arrived in Kurdish regional capital Arbil and "a group of them should be going to Mount Sinjar to study the situation there," Halgord Hekmat told AFP, without specifying whether they yet done so.