US Central Command said on Monday that it had conducted a fifth airdrop of food and water for thousands of members of an Iraqi religious minority group known as Yazidis who have been trapped on a mountaintop in northwest Iraq by Sunni militants with the Islamic State group.
The command said US military aircraft have delivered a total of more than 85 000 meals and more than 75 708l of fresh drinking water to the displaced Yazidis.
US agency for international development administrator Rajiv Shah said on Monday that the US has also deployed a disaster response team to Iraq to help distribute humanitarian aid.
- AP
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