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Medical aid for 29,500 reaches besieged Syrians, no evacuations

Emergency supplies for 29,500 people arrived in four besieged Syrian towns on Sunday under a local ceasefire agreement but no one was evacuated as the deal provided for, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday. Thirty-one trucks took the medical and humanitarian supplies to the Shi’ite Muslim towns of Kefraya and al-Foua, under rebel siege in Idlib province in northwest Syria, as well