An armored vehicle belonging to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rushes to a bombing site as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Erbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014.
The United States has no plans to expand its air campaign in Iraq beyond protecting American personnel in the city of Arbil and besieged Yazidi refugees, the Pentagon said Monday.
"There are no plans to expand the current air campaign beyond the current self defense activities," Lieutenant General William Mayville told reporters at the Pentagon.