UN ‘very worried’ about thousands fleeing Iraq offensive
The United Nations said Thursday it was concerned that many of the 35,000 people recently displaced by fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province were still very close to the front lines. Thousands of civilians have been fleeing Hit, 145 kilometers (90 miles) west of Baghdad, as security forces close in on fighters from ISIS hunkered down […]The United Nations said Thursday it was concerned that many of the 35,000 people recently displaced by fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province were still very close to the front lines.
Thousands of civilians have been fleeing Hit, 145 kilometers (90 miles) west of Baghdad, as security forces close in on fighters from ISIS hunkered down in the city.
“The UN doesn’t have full access and we are very worried that some of the families who are escaping are in areas very close to the front lines,” the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Lise Grande, said in a statement.
