The last of six Italian C-130J
military transport planes landed Wednesday in Erbil, the capital
of Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of a humanitarian airlift to aid
civilians fleeing an offensive by fundamentalist Islamic State
(ISIS) militia in northern Iraq.
Italy since August 16 has sent six such humanitarian aid
flights, bringing 49 tonnes of food and water, 200 tents and 400
sleeping bags to United Nations refugee camps in the northern
part of the country, where Kurdish forces are battling ISIS in a
bid to stop the fundamentalist militia as it tries to set up a
caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.
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