The international aid group, Doctors Without Borders, warned that an estimated 100,000 people are trapped in northern Syria's Azaz district, with battle lines approaching. Assad's forces have surrounded most of the 19 UN-designated "besieged areas" and there was no immediate sign that his government would authorize air deliveries of aid. A day earlier, an aid convoy involving the UN and the International Committee for the Red Cross reached the town of Daraya, but it didn't include food aid. "At the end of the day, to be able to carry out these air deliveries — it's not just air drops, but air deliveries — you would need the consent of the government. He also said the UN was adding another town, al-Waer in Homs province, to its list of "besieged" areas — now numbering 19.

Source: CBC News June 03, 2016 07:41 UTC