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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 01:55 PM Jan 2015

UN Can't Reach Residents Of Islamic State's De Facto Capital In Syria

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations says it cannot deliver aid to 600,000 people in two Syrian cities controlled by the Islamic State group.

Deputy humanitarian chief Kyung-wha Kang told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that residents of the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa and the city of Deir ez Zor received no food deliveries in December because the U.N. had no agreement with armed groups there.

The U.N.'s monthly reports on efforts to get food and other aid to millions trapped in Syria's four-year civil war have been unrelentingly grim. Kang said 12 million people inside Syria need humanitarian aid, and 3.8 million people have fled to neighboring countries. Another 7.6 million are displaced inside the country.

Kang urged the Security Council to find a way to end the war.

"We must not allow the world to forget Syria and the atrocities being committed against its people," she said.

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UN Can't Reach Residents Of Islamic State's De Facto Capital In Syria (Original Post) Purveyor Jan 2015 OP
why is the UN trying to help ISIS? quadrature Jan 2015 #1
Even people existing under ISIS need to eat. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2015 #2
that is true. But the supply trucks have to pay a toll to ISIS quadrature Jan 2015 #3
fees, extortion, donations from citiznes arond the world, they have a number of rackets Agnosticsherbet Jan 2015 #4
 

quadrature

(2,049 posts)
1. why is the UN trying to help ISIS?
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 02:26 PM
Jan 2015

there is a war ongoing

edit.
ammo, fuel, weapons.
exactly what ISIS wants.

 

quadrature

(2,049 posts)
3. that is true. But the supply trucks have to pay a toll to ISIS
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 04:57 PM
Jan 2015

which is one of the ways ISIS
pays for its war effort.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
4. fees, extortion, donations from citiznes arond the world, they have a number of rackets
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 08:22 PM
Jan 2015

to pay the costs of beheading people murdering anyone that doesn't followed their extremist and skewed version of religion, and conquering the world.

But I am not a fan of allowing people to starve.

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