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.
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