Syria Agrees to Allow More Aid for Besieged Towns

The United Nations humanitarian office said it will send the Syrian government a detailed list of aid it wants to deliver to three besieged towns after getting an agreement "in principle" to make deliveries to people who are badly in need of food and other supplies. The U.N. did not give a date Monday for when the deliveries to Madaya, Foua and Kfarya will take place. Madaya, about 40 kilometers northwest of Damascus, has been under siege by government forces for months,...

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