Life-saving aid reaches Kurdish-majority town in Syria: U.N.

A U.N. humanitarian convoy arrived Sunday in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane, which has been filled recently with people displaced by clashes in northern Syria, a spokesperson said.

Earlier Sunday, Syria’s military said it had opened a humanitarian corridor to the town, also known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic and once a symbol of Kurdish fighters’ victory against Islamic State group (IS) jihadists.

The aid came as the Syrian authorities and Kurdish forces extended a ceasefire agreement after the latter relinquished swaths of territory.