Syrian people come back into al-Moadamiya, a district on the outskirts of Damascus that has been besieged by the government troops for months, in Syria, March 2, 2014. Over the past few weeks, some rebel-held areas have accepted what the government calls "national reconciliation" deals, whereby they surrender their weapons, or agree to truces, in exchange for allowing food to enter and people to leave. Many refugees have come back to their home after that deal.(Xinhua/Bassem Tellawi)
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Residents of Damascus' suburb reject UN aid delivery
DAMASCUS, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The local reconciliation committee of the Mudamyieh suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus rejected on Sunday aid rations from the UN, prompting the UN convoys to withdraw without distributing the aid.
"The Mudamyieh suburb doesn't need aid and it is not besieged as they claim. Our situation is good and we don't need aid," Hasan Ghandour, a general coordinator of the reconciliations, told reporters at the entrance of Mudamyieh, a sprawling suburb in southwestern Damascus. Full story
