The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, a town of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State forces, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. Jan Egeland, speaking to reporters after the task force met in Geneva, said that the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) had a "concrete plan" for carrying out the operation in coming days, but gave no details.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
U.N. aims to make first air drops of food to besieged in Syria: Egeland
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