Aid Convoys Head to Besieged Syrian Towns

Aid convoys carrying food, medicine and blankets rolled Monday toward three towns in Syria where sieges by pro-government forces and rebel fighters have left people starving. The deliveries were expected to simultaneously reach Madaya, near the Lebanon border, and Fuaa and Kafraya in Idlib province near Syria's border with Turkey. The effort is a joint operation between the International Red Cross, Syrian Red Crescent and the United Nations after the Syrian government agreed last...

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