Northeast Syria faces food crisis, but access eases elsewhere: WFP


  • World
  • Tuesday, 11 Mar 2014

GENEVA (Reuters) - Three northeastern provinces of Syria face an "alarming" food crisis, although access to relieve the impact of civil war has improved somewhat elsewhere, a U.N. aid agency said on Monday.

Western powers and U.N. human rights investigators have accused the Syrian government of a policy of "starvation until submission" to punish tens of thousands of civilians in rebel-held areas. Opposition forces are besieging two Shi'ite Muslim villages with a total of 45,000 people in Aleppo province.

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