SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR NEWS

Air strikes have hit Douma in Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta just after 13 trucks of food aid crossed into the enclave, heading for the town, according to opposition activists and a monitor.

The development came on Friday after an overnight pause in fighting encouraged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to send the convoy in, that had previously been delayed due to violence.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) had previously said that the besieged enclave had witnessed no air strikes for the first time in the last 10 days.

However, shortly after the aid convoy crossed into the enclave on Friday, the SOHR said, the air strikes resumed.

The UN estimates that 400,000 people live in the rebel-held areas of Eastern Ghouta.

The attack on Douma as the aid convoy entered the area is part of a larger trend. On Friday, the World Health Organization verified 67 attacks on health facilities in the first two months of 2018.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said on Friday that the aid delivered was enough for just 12,000 people.