First UN food aid in two years reaches over 30,000 Iraqis

By THE MANILA TIMES

Sep 06, 2016 7:18 pm

BAGHDAD: The UN said Tuesday it has delivered food supplies to more than 30,000 residents of Qayyarah for the first time in two years after Iraqi forces expelled jihadists from the northern town.

Government forces on August 25 pushed the Islamic State group out of Qayyarah, considered strategic for a planned offensive against the jihadists' last Iraqi stronghold of Mosul further north.

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