Iraqi kurds and Iraqi Christians hold-up signd thanking the USA during a demonstration in front of the US General Consulate in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 11, 2014. Air strikes aimed at halting the advance of Sunni Islamic State militants in Iraq have been effective and the US is open to further requests for help, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said. The United States has conducted three days of attacks by jets and drones on jihadists in northern Iraq whose onslaught has displaced 200,000 people since August 3, including all the residents of Iraq's largest Christian town, Qaraqosh. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)
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