Crude barrel bombs have been dropped on a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, which received its first food-aid delivery in four years, according to the local Council of Daraya.
The reported violence on Friday came in the rebel-held area just hours after the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the UN delivered food aid to its residents for the first time since it came under siege in 2012.
Darayya’s city council said 28 barrel bombs were dropped from helicopters, preventing the aid from being delivered to residents.
Writing on Facebook, the local Council of Daraya said that at least 28 barrel bombs —crude, unguided explosive devices — were dropped.
late on Thursday, the food-aid delivery came after the UN said the Syrian Government had permitted access to 15 of the 19 besieged areas within the country.
Daraya has been under siege since November 2012 and has witnessed some of the worst bombardment during Syria’s civil war, now in its sixth year.
Meanwhile Kurdish-led forces said they had encircled a stronghold of so-called ISIS in northern Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they had cut off the road between Manbij and Bab, north-east of Aleppo.
The US-backed offensive aims to expel IS militants from the region to the north of the group’s de facto capital, Raqqa.