The Pentagon said two F / A-18 dropped a 500-pound laser bombs.
United States said it had launched air strikes against militias Daulah Islamiyah in Iraq, formerly known as ISIS.
The Pentagon said the plane they used artillery attack in northern Iraq to fight Kurdish forces defending the city of Irbil.
United States President Barack Obama does allow air strikes on Thursday (August 7), but said he would not send American troops back into Iraq.
Two F / A-18, according to the Pentagon, dropping 500-pound bombs on artillery laser moves near Irbil.
The air strike was the first since President Obama pulled out of Iraq in 2011.
Click Daulah Islamiyah (DI) now control many parts of Iraq and Syria.
In June, AT control of the city of Mosul, northern Iraq and move forward towards the south into Baghdad, and earlier this week his fighters controlled Qaraqosh, a Christian town, the largest of Iraq.
Part media Admiral John Kirby said the Pentagon DI using artillery strike Kurdish forces were trying to maintain Irbil, where the United States headquarters are located.
Iraqi Christians displaced by the advance Daulah Islamiyah.
On Thursday, Obama said the Iraqi government for help and the United States would act "and was responsible cautious, to avoid the possibility of acts of genocide" against the Yazidi and Christian communities, both minority groups in Iraq.
USA is following the intervention increasing international concern over the fate of Christians and Yazidi minorities as forward movement DI.
Washington also has dropped emergency food aid to thousands of refugees in the mountainous region.
The air strike was the first since President Obama pulled out of Iraq in 2011.
(DI) now control many parts of Iraq and Syria.
In June, AT control of the city of Mosul, northern Iraq and move forward towards the south into Baghdad, and earlier this week his fighters controlled Qaraqosh, a Christian town, the largest of Iraq.
Part media Admiral John Kirby said the Pentagon DI using artillery strike Kurdish forces were trying to maintain Irbil, where the United States headquarters are located.
Iraqi Christians displaced by the advance Daulah Islamiyah.
On Thursday, Obama said the Iraqi government for help and the United States would act "and was responsible cautious, to avoid the possibility of acts of genocide" against the Yazidi and Christian communities, both minority groups in Iraq.
USA is following the intervention increasing international concern over the fate of Christians and Yazidi minorities as forward movement DI.
Washington also has dropped emergency food aid to thousands of refugees in the mountainous region.
On Thursday, Obama said the Iraqi government for help and the United States would act "and was responsible cautious, to avoid the possibility of acts of genocide" against the Yazidi and Christian communities, both minority groups in Iraq.
USA is following the intervention increasing international concern over the fate of Christians and Yazidi minorities as forward movement DI.
Washington also has dropped emergency food aid to thousands of refugees in the mountainous region.
