A UN aid convoy carrying food, water and other basic supplies was able to cross frontlines in Syria to reach a rebel-held city, the first cross-line delivery this month.<br/><br/>An UN spokesman said that the food and other supplies will help 107,500 Syrians staying in Rastan and nearby villages in the Homs region of western Syria, which has not had any aid since July.<br/><br/>UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien said that the supplies require complex negotiations. He said that three aid convoys recently sent to distant areas were turned back at checkpoints manned by Syrian security personnel.

A UN aid convoy carrying food, water and other basic supplies was able to cross frontlines in Syria to reach a rebel-held city, the first<br/>cross-line delivery this month.<br/><br/> An UN spokesman said that the food and other supplies will help 107,500 Syrians staying in Rastan and nearby villages in the Homs region of western Syria, which has not had any aid since July.<br/><br/>UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien said that the supplies require complex negotiations. He said that three aid convoys recently sent to distant areas were turned back at checkpoints manned by Syrian security personnel.

A UN aid convoy carrying food, water and other basic supplies was able to cross frontlines in Syria to reach a rebel-held city, the first cross-line delivery this month. <br/><br/>The UN spokesman said, the food and other assistance will help hundred thousand Syrians living in Rastan and nearby villages in the Homs region of western Syria, which has not received any aid since July. <br/><br/>According to the UN, nearly six million Syrians live in hard-to-reach areas including one million people in besieged areas.<br/><br/>The deliveries, which require complex negotiations to ensure the security of the aid workers, were announced a day after UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis was worsening in Syria.<br/><br/>O'Brien said there had been no cross-line deliveries in the month of November despite a series of UN resolutions calling for unimpeded access for humanitarian aid.<br/><br/>Three aid convoys recently sent to hard-to-reach areas were turned back at checkpoints manned by Syrian security forces or pro-government militias. A fourth aid delivery planned for rural Homs earlier this week was aborted due to delays and shelling in the rebel-held area.<br/><br/>