Middle East

UN provides 20 truckloads of aid to NW Syria via Turkey

Humanitarian aid to be distributed among needy people in Idlib, surrounding areas

Cem Genco  | 23.03.2021 - Update : 23.03.2021
UN provides 20 truckloads of aid to NW Syria via Turkey

HATAY, Turkey

The UN on Tuesday sent 20 more truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province.

The trucks crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s southern Hatay province.

The humanitarian aid will be distributed among the needy people in Idlib and its surrounding areas.

Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.

According to UN estimates, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced.

Idlib falls within a de-escalation zone forged under an agreement between Turkey and Russia.

The area has been the subject of multiple cease-fire understandings that the Assad regime and its allies have frequently violated.




​​​​​​​* Writing by Ahmet Gencturk in Ankara

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