The US has sent 130 more military advisers to northern Iraq to assess the scope of the humanitarian mission, as the plight of families displaced by Islamist extremists deepens.
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the soldiers had been sent to northern Iraq to develop additional humanitarian assistance options beyond the current airdrop effort.
The move is in support of displaced Iraqi civilians, including Christian and Yazidi minority groups, trapped in the Sinjar mountains by Sunni militants of the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Sky's Middle East Correspondent Sherine Tadros, in northern Iraq, said the situation was also getting "ever more desperate" for those fleeing the violence and who had managed to escape.
A map detailing the Sinjar mountains "Horrible stories of how they've had to walk days to get this area. Help can't come fast enough for these people," she said.
"Many have friends and relatives still stuck in the areas taken over by the militants, with no idea if they will make it out alive.
"We are talking about thousands of people that are now taking refuge wherever they can.
"A lot of them are injured, some of them from gunshots, some of them from the difficult conditions of the long journey."
Areas the Islamic State has launched offensives and wants to make one state What began as a small number of families squatting on a piece of land owned by a Kurdish businessman, has been transformed into a makeshift refugee camp in Dohuk province which has attracted between 6,000 and 8,000 men, women and children.
Tadros said: "There's not much in terms of facilities, we are talking about three or four showers and toilets.
"There is no electricity and not much food either. They eat when the locals come to feed to them.
"There aren't enough tents. There are only about 230 actual tents that have been donated by the local mayor, and so most of them are actually on the floor, without any shelter, and are using bits of metal, anything they can, to shelter from the blistering heat.
Iraqi Christians receive food at Ainkawa's Saint Joseph church, near Irbil "And these of course, are considered the lucky ones, the ones who did manage to escape."
Since June, the US has sent about 700 military personnel to Iraq to protect diplomats there and take stock of the country's military capacity.
Western powers and international aid agencies are considering further help for the thousands of refugees driven from their homes by IS fighters near the Syrian border.
US Secretary John Kerry said the US would consider requests for military and other assistance once Iraq's new prime minister-designate forms a government to unite the country.
Haider al Abadi has received support from the US and Iran, and Sunni neighbours Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
However, his Shi'ite party colleague, Nuri al Maliki, has refused to quit his eight-year premiership, and on Wednesday said it would take a federal court ruling for him to leave power.
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