Syrian President Bashar al-Assad approved plans to open two new border crossings to allow aid to enter the country’s rebel-held northwest from Turkey, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said, though details about the plan have yet to emerge.
“I’ve never in my life seen the level of destruction as I did on the road from Aleppo to Damascus,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is in Syria, said in a tweet Tuesday. After a decade of war, Syrians urgently need the world’s support, he said.