Convoy carrying food and fuel reaches Kurdish-majority town, also known as Kobane, in Aleppo province.
A United Nations convoy carrying “life-saving” aid has arrived in the Kurdish-majority town of Ain al-Arab in northern Syria as a ceasefire agreement between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continues to hold.
The convoy’s arrival in Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobane, on Sunday came amid growing concerns about humanitarian conditions in the town, which has been surrounded by Syrian government forces.
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Electricity and water in the town have also been cut off for days.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the convoy consisted of 24 trucks carrying “life-saving aid, including fuel, bread, and ready-to-eat rations, to support people affected by the recent developments”.
It said the convoy was coordinated with the Syrian government.
The Syrian army said in a statement that it was opening two corridors, one to Ain al-Arab, located in Aleppo province, and another to the nearby Hasakah province, to allow “the entry of aid”.
Ain al-Arab, which has a population of 400,000 people, is hemmed in by the Turkish border to the north and government forces on all sides. It is approximately 200km (125 miles) from the SDF’s stronghold in Syria’s far northeast.
The SDF has accused the Syrian army of imposing a siege on the town.
Clashes between the two sides erupted earlier this month amid a dispute over the integration of the SDF into the Syrian army. Under pressure from the United States, the two sides agreed to a fou