Sharjah 24 – AFP: United Nations aid transited Friday from army-controlled northwest Syria to rebel-held areas for the first time since a devastating February earthquake, an AFP correspondent and a humanitarian official said.
The correspondent saw the 10-truck convoy reach rebel-held Al-Nayrab in Idlib province from the direction of army-held Saraqib, headed for storage facilities near the Turkish border.
The last such convoy was in January, according to a humanitarian official in Idlib who requested anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.
The trucks were covered with banners bearing the name and logo of the UN World Food Programme, the correspondent said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Twitter the "cross-line convoy is underway, carrying UN humanitarian supplies" to northwest Syria.
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