Syrian Govt Approves Aid Delivery across Frontlines

This aerial view shows a makeshift camp set up to temporarily host Syrians who were made homeless after a devastating earthquake hit their country, in a school in the town of Atareb in the opposition-held western countryside of Aleppo province, on February 10, 2023. (AFP)

Syria's government has approved humanitarian aid delivery across the frontlines of the country's 12-year-old war, state media said on Friday, a move that could speed up the arrival of help for millions of people affected by Monday's deadly quake.

Aid distribution will take place in cooperation with the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, state media said, to "guarantee the arrival of this aid to those who need it".