US EditionLife-saving aid reaches Kurdish-majority town: UN
A 24-truck UN convoy delivered essential aid to Kobane after a 15-day ceasefire extension aimed at easing IS detainee transfers and humanitarian access.
- A UN humanitarian convoy arrived in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane, Syria, with supplies for displaced people.
- The Syrian military opened a humanitarian corridor to Kobane after extending a ceasefire agreement with Kurdish forces.
- Kobane, once symbolic of Kurdish victory over ISIS, has been impacted by recent clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Washington TimesU.N. aid convoy delivers supplies to besieged city in northeast Syria as a shaky ceasefire holds
DAMASCUS, Syria — A United Nations aid convoy unloaded humanitarian supplies in the besieged enclave of Kobani in northeast Syria, officials said...
Ottumwa Courier
UN aid convoy delivers supplies to besieged city in northeast Syria as a shaky ceasefire holds
A U.N. aid convoy has delivered humanitarian supplies to Kobani in northeast Syria. This marks the first aid delivery since fighting began between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces earlier this month. A ceasefire, announced Tuesday and…
The city of Kobane is surrounded by Islamist militias. The situation is catastrophic, massacres are threatening. Actually, there is a ceasefire between the Kurdish-led SDF and the transitional government in Syria.
The refugees in Kobane, a predominantly Kurdish city, are isolated by the blockade that the Syrian army maintains on the outskirts.
A first UN convoy arrived on Sunday to Kobane, a mostly Kurdish town in northern Syria surrounded by the army, to provide "vital assistance" to displaced persons who had fled the clashes.
While the population of Kobane faces critical shortages, the arrival of UN aid marks a turning point in a symbolic city, still under high tension between army and Kurdish forces.
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