UNHCR launches aid effort for Northern Iraq, fighting at Mosil Dam continues, IS threatens to attack US soil

The United Nations agency for Refugees (UNHCR) is launching a major aid operation to reach over 500,000 people displaced by fighting in Iraq, reports the BBC.

The UNHCR said that it would send its goods at services to the northern region of Iraq through the Kurdish capital city of Irbil from Wednesday morning.

The aid announcement came as fighting to recapture the Mosul Dam from the Islamic State militants continued.

The Islamic State (IS) warned today that, it would launch attacks on American soil if the US continued to use air strikes on IS militants.

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