Why the UK is halting foreign aid to rebel-held areas of Syria

The decision suggests Britain has accepted that the Syrian opposition faces imminent defeat

Syria
Syrians inspect the damage in a mosque after an air strike in the Maaret al-Numan district of Idlib
(Image credit: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images)

The government has decided to axe the funding of a number of aid programmes in rebel-held areas of Syria on the basis that it’s become too difficult to deliver the money.

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