The United Nations will take the "last resort" option of air drops of humanitarian aid if access to besieged areas in Syria is not improved by June 1, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. Without improved aid access and some restoration of Syria's tattered cessation of...

The Red Cross is delivering assistance to greater numbers of Syrian civilians and visiting more detainees in government prisons but the situation remains "dramatic" in besieged areas, a senior official said Tuesday. Robert Mardini, regional director for the Near and Middle East, said that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has blocked the U.N. aid delivery to the besieged rebel-held areas, including the Eastern Ghouta district and war-ravaged city of Aleppo. The U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday that Bashar al-Assad's government had refused U.N. demands to...

Syria's government is refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people including many in Aleppo, the city at the center of an eruption of fighting in the past two weeks, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday. "We seem to be having new possible besieged...