Last month members of the International Syria Support Group, which includes Russia and the United States, agreed that the UN World Food Program should air drop aid to Syria's besieged communities from June 1 if land access was denied.
Civilians wait in shelter while fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces secure their village after they took control of it from Islamic State fighters, in the southern rural area of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
The United Nations will ask the Syrian government on Sunday to approve air drops and air lifts of humanitarian aid to besieged areas, UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council, according to diplomats in the closed door meeting on Friday.
