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US urges Russia, Syria to facilitate aid to remote camp

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UN and Syrian Red Crescent deliver aid to isolated camp

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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2018 file photo, Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, talks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Lowcock urged Syria's warring parties on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 to ensure the delivery of desperately needed aid to Syrians stranded near the border with Jordan and warned again that a major military operation in extremist-controlled Idlib would be a humanitarian catastrophe. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

UN humanitarian chief urges aid delivery to Syrians

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - This file picture taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, shows an overview of the informal Rukban camp, between the Jordan and Syria borders. Statements issued by the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said their joint convoy reached Rukban camp and would deliver assistance to 50,000 people The convoy was supposed to arrive last week but was delayed due to logistics and security concerns. The U.N. said the operation is expected to take three to four days. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh, File)

UN aid convoy reaches Syria desert camp near Jordan border

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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, a Syrian child from the informal Rukban camp for displaced Syrians, between the Jordan and Syria borders, receives treatment in a clinic run by UNICEF inside Jordan. Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded in a desert camp near the Jordanian border are at risk of malnutrition amid dwindling humanitarian supplies. The Rukban camp is home to some 45,000 people, many of them women and children, who are living in miserable conditions in the open desert area. A U.N. convoy was supposed to go in on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, but has now been indefinitely delayed. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Thousands of Syrians stuck in the desert risk starvation

By HIBA DLEWATI - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, a Jordanian soldier stands guard at the northeastern border with Syria, close to the informal Rukban camp for displaced Syrians. Desperate to help Syrians stuck on Jordan's sealed border, U.N. agencies reluctantly agreed late last year to hand much of the control over aid distribution to Jordan's military, a Jordanian contractor and a Syrian militia. Since then, the system has broken down repeatedly and only sporadic aid shipments have reached the two remote desert camps on the border. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Obstacles mount in fight to aid Syrians stranded near Jordan

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this picture taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, a Jordanian soldier stands at the north eastern border with Syria, close to the informal Rukban camp. The commander of Jordan's border guards says Islamic State extremists are expanding their influence in the sprawling border camp for tens of thousands of displaced Syrians, posing a growing threat to the U.S.-allied kingdom. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh)

Jordan commander: IS expands hold in border camp for Syrians

By KHETAM MALKAWI and OMAR AKOUR - Associated Press