Two Iraqi planes fly to Belarus to repatriate more than 600 Iraqis stuck on the ex-Soviet state's border with Poland
Two Iraqi planes have taken off for Belarus in order to repatriate more than 600 Iraqis stuck on the ex-Soviet state's border with Poland.
Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus, where thousands of migrants have camped on the border for weeks hoping to enter the European Union.
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