Sunday 10 August 2014 15.41 Islamic state militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during an attack in the north of the country.
The Sunni militants have also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children.
There are reports that 300 women were kidnapped as slaves.
Iraqi Kurdish President Barzani has asked the international community for weapons to fight the Islamic militants.
At least 20,000 civilians who had been besieged by jihadists on a mountain in northern Iraq have safely escaped to Syria/
The have been escorted by Kurdish forces back into Iraq, officials have said.
The United States has carried out new air strikes and aid drops in northern Iraq.
This is the third round of air strikes in the area.
The Pentagon said warplanes and drones had destroyed armed vehicles.
The armed vehicles had been used to fire on people from the Yazidi community trapped on Mount Sinjar.
US military planes also dropped containers with water and thousands of meals.
British military aircraft are also making humanitarian air drops in the troubled region.
Call for broad-based government - Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also called on Iraqi politicians to form a broad-based government to face jihadists threatening large parts of the country.
Mr Ban "calls upon all Iraqi political parties to abide by the constitutional timeline that governs the nomination of the Prime Minister," his spokesman said in a statement.
"He also calls for reason and wisdom to prevail and urges all leaders in Iraq to form a broad-based government that is acceptable to all components of Iraqi society."
Iraq's parliament has been deadlocked on choosing a new prime minister following elections in April.
Yazidis under attack
The Yazidis are followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism.
They are spread over northern Iraq and are part of the country's Kurdish minority.
They believe in God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of seven "holy beings" or angels.
It is estimated that there are 700,000 Yazidis worldwide.
Sunni militants view the community as "devil worshippers".
Sinjar, the ancient home of the Yazidis is one of the towns captured by the militants.
The Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, has prompted tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians to flee for their lives during their push to within a 30-minute drive of the Kurdish regional capital Arbil.
A deadline passed at midday today for 300 Yazidi families to convert to Islam or face death at the hands of the Islamic State.
It was not immediately clear whether the Iraqi minister was talking about the fate of those families or others in the conflict.
The militant group, which arrived in northern Iraq in June, has routed Kurds in its latest advance.
It has seized several towns, a fifth oilfield and Iraq's biggest dam - possibly gaining the ability to flood cities and cut off water and power supplies.
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