First food aid to Syria suburb Daraya since 2012

Government had prohibited help for opposition-held Daraya.

First food aid to Syria suburb Daraya since 2012

An international aid convoy has delivered food to the Damascus suburb of Daraya for the first time in four years, but opposition activists said its distribution had been held up by government forces’ heavy air bombardment.

The opposition-held suburb, south-west of the Syrian capital, has been under siege by government forces since November 2012, and has suffered some of the worst bombardments of the six-year civil war.

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