Syria allows UN to keep delivering aid from Turkey

FILE PHOTO: People stand near trucks parked at Bab al-Salameh border crossing in Aleppo countryside, Syria August 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano/File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has extended permission for the United Nations to deliver aid to opposition-held areas in the northwest of the country via two Turkish border crossings for another three months, the United Nations said on Monday.

After an earthquake killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria in February, Damascus initially allowed the U.N. to dispatch aid through the Turkish crossings for three months. That has now been extended for a third time until Feb. 13.