Convoys deliver vital aid to 100000 in 5 besieged areas of Syria

Shaaban also criticised De Mistura for not making it clear that the Syrian regime has cooperated in previous United Nations aid deliveries. Nine aid trucks crossed a checkpoint to enter Mouadamiya al-Sham on Wednesday, the SARC source told Reuters.

He met the country’s foreign minister, Walid al-Mouallim, where the principal topic under discussion was the need for reach besieged civilians in dire need of aid.

Dozens in Madaya have starved to death after months of siege by government forces and their allies.

Deir Al Zor was one of the seven areas to which the aid convoys were expected to head within the next few days, the United Nations said.

Hillo said supplies for 20,000 people were to be delivered to the Shiite towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, in northwestern Idlib province, which are surrounded by rebel forces. There was no sign of progress on this front.

However, analysts and officials, including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, have voiced doubts whether such a ceasefire can be implemented.

It was the second time since last week that Mr.de Mistura discussed with representatives of the ISSG humanitarian access issues.

The town lies south of the main Kurdish stronghold in north-eastern Syria’s al-Hassakeh province. “Weren’t we coalition forces?”

It said that on February 14 nearly 350 passed through the Atme border crossing in northern Aleppo with their light weapons.

She appeared to be referring to a more informal agreement to stop aerial attacks within the suggestion that this could help bring about the overall cessation of hostilities agreed upon in Munich. Russian Federation has said that it will continue to strike extremists in Syria despite a planned truce.

On Wednesday, Erdogan said that Turkey’s patience may run out over the crisis in Syria and it could be forced to take action.

“But US officials and regional experts were cautious about prospects for a partial cease-fire to get off the ground, with the regime and its backers pursuing what they described as a strategy to seal off the Turkish-Syrian border and encircle Aleppo”.

“Our buses and planes are not waiting there in vain”, he said, adding that Turkey had information that Iran-backed forces in Syria were carrying out “merciless massacres”.

Erdogan also lashed out at the links between the YPG and the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighting in Turkey. Kurdish militia fighters, regarded by Ankara as hostile insurgents, have taken advantage of the violence to seize territory from Syrian rebels.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday renewed her proposal for a no-fly zone in Syria where civilians would be protected, a suggestion that was promptly rebuffed by Moscow that said it can only be done with the Syrian government’s consent. Israel has been accused of previously hitting government positions and those of its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.