UN Starts Aid Airlift to Syria from Iraq

The United Nations has started to deliver humanitarian aid by air into Syria from northern Iraq.After weather delays, a cargo plane carrying food took off Sunday from the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan for a one-hour flight into northeastern Syria.The U.N. World Food Program says food being sent during the next 12 days should be enough to feed more than 6,000 Syrian families for the rest of December. The aid flights will also carry blankets, medicine and clothing. The airlift was delayed...

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