An aid convoy for besieged civilians entered a rebel-held town in central Syria on Wednesday for the first time in a year, AFP reports.
In the third such aid operation in Homs province this week, the Red Crescent and International Committee of the Red Cross was delivering food parcels to 12,000 families in and around Talbisseh, ICRC spokesman Pawel Krzysiek said.
The 35 trucks will also ferry in medicines, delivery kits for pregnant women and equipment to fix water boreholes and pumping stations, he said.
The delivery to the area besieged by government forces is the ICRC's first in three years and the Red Crescent's first in a year.
Another 14 trucks are expected to reach the area in coming days, Krzysiek said.
Talbisseh and surrounding areas -- controlled by rebels since 2012 -- are home to 60,000 people, half of them displaced by fighting.