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Iraq aid operation launched by UN refugee agency UNHCR | Iraq aid operation launched by UN refugee agency UNHCR |
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The United Nations agency for refugees is launching a major aid operation to reach more than half a million people displaced by fighting in northern Iraq. | The United Nations agency for refugees is launching a major aid operation to reach more than half a million people displaced by fighting in northern Iraq. |
Supplies will be sent via airlift, road convoys and sea shipments through Turkey, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran. | Supplies will be sent via airlift, road convoys and sea shipments through Turkey, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran. |
A UN spokesman called it "a very, very significant aid push". | A UN spokesman called it "a very, very significant aid push". |
Militants from Islamic State (IS) have captured parts of northern Iraq and are fighting Iraqi and Kurdish forces. | Militants from Islamic State (IS) have captured parts of northern Iraq and are fighting Iraqi and Kurdish forces. |
The UN's World Food Programme says it has already served up more than a million meals to displaced people in the past two weeks alone. | |
Tents and other goods will be included in the aid packages to be delivered to refugees to try and tackle the escalating humanitarian crisis. | |
The aid push comes as Western powers step up efforts to stem the advance of Islamic militants by supporting Kurdish and Iraqi government forces in northern Iraq. | |
On Monday, US President Barack Obama said that the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq had been recaptured by Kurdish forces, a key gain against the militants who had earlier taken control of it. |