December 25, 2024 02:39 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane enroute to Russia with over 70 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan | Atishi will be arrested in fake case, claims Arvind Kejriwal after Delhi govt disowns health and women's schemes | Delhi govt departments disown Arvind Kejriwal's major poll promises, AAP chief reacts | 'Our nation will always be grateful to him': PM Modi writes article in tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birth centenary | Syria: Christmas tree set on fire by suspected 'Islamists', Christians protest | Pakistan strikes TTP camps in Afghanistan, Taliban government claims civilians killed | Former home secy Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed Manipur Guv amid ethnic violence resurgence | Five soldiers killed, several injured as Army truck falls into Poonch gorge | Allu Arjun quizzed by police in Pushpa 2 stampede case | Wanted Indian drug smuggler killed in the US
UN warns of 'humanitarian tragedy' as militants seize town in northern Iraq

UN warns of 'humanitarian tragedy' as militants seize town in northern Iraq

Aug 04, 2014, at 05:51 am

New York, Aug 3 (IBNS) The capture of the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq by militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other armed groups has displaced as many as 200,000 people and set off a "humanitarian tragedy", the United Nations envoy to the crisis-gripped country warned on Sunday.