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UN admits Syria airdrop failure

 
 

The day after the UN's first airdrop into Syria, the World Food Programme said that only 4 of the 21 aid pallets it dropped into the besieged city of Deir Ezzor had made it to their intended destination, and even those packages were damaged because of failed parachutes.



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Will probe of "executions" at Afghan clinic bring justice?

 
 

Both the Afghan government and NATO are investigating an Afghan special forces raid on a clinic in which three people were said to have been executed, including a teenage boy.



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First UN Syria airdrop lands in trouble

 
 

Only a few hours after UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council that a 21-ton World Food Programme airdrop had successfully been made to the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor Wednesday, the WFP said something had gone wrong and local activists said the aid was either damaged on landing or fell wide of its mark.



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