U.N. envoy says war goals in Iraq obscuring humanitarian crisis


  • World
  • Monday, 25 Apr 2016

People gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad al-Jadida, Iraq April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily

GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights envoy said on Monday Iraq was being run by a failed government and warned foreign powers not to be "complicit" in its neglect of the plight of normal Iraqis.

The United Nations' deputy high commissioner for human rights said both Baghdad and its international supporters were too focused on defeating Islamic State and had no strategy for mending the country after that.

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