UN to launch major operation to help refugees in Iraq

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Geneva, Aug 19 (IANS/EFE) The UN Wednesday will launch a major land, sea and air operation to provide aid to around half a million people displaced by extremists of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group in **rthern Iraq. The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is expected to begin distribution of the aid in a four-day airlift between Aqaba in Jordan and Erbil, the capital of Iraq's auto**mous Kurdistan region, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said Tuesday. The aid operation will be completed over the next 10 days with truck convoys dis*****ed to **rthern Iraq from Turkey and Jordan, and by sea shipments from Dubai to Iran, from where the supplies will make their way by land into Iraq. Some 200,000 people have been displaced in **rthern Iraq since the start of August, after the fall of Sinjar city and nearby regions at the hands of the IS militants.

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