DAMASCUS: Syria’s military claimed on Sunday it has established a humanitarian corridor to the Kurdish-majority town of Kobani, which is home to displaced people, as a UN convoy bringing life-saving aid approached.
The assistance came as the Defense Ministry announced a 15-day extension of the truce across all fronts of Syrian Arab Army operations, beginning at 11 p.m. on January 24.The ministry stated that the ceasefire extension is in support of the US operation to transport Daesh captives from Syrian prisons to Iraq.
The Operations Command of the Syrian Arab Army cautioned the Syrian Democratic Forces and PKK militias not to continue their violations and provocations. It also declared the opening of two humanitarian corridors, one in Kobani and one in nearby Hasakah province, to allow “the entry of aid.”
Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, a representative of the UN’s refugee agency in Syria, told X that “thanks to the cooperation with the Syrian government… a convoy of 24 trucks carrying essential food, relief items, and diesel” left for Kobani “to deliver life-saving and winter assistance to civilians affected by the hostilities. The Syrian Democratic Forces are restricted to Kurdish-majority territories in the northeast and Kobani in the north.
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