Aleppo so near yet so far as UN sends aid via Turkey
- 8 years ago
Every morning, Syrian trucks roll up to a car park near a Turkish border crossing, ready to take a consignment of UN aid back inside the war-torn country. But so far the cargo cannot reach the area where it is needed most -- the besieged rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo where tens of thousands of people are desperately short of food.