http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/middleeast/un-syria-aid-convoy.html 2016-09-22 18:43:31 U.N. Restarts Aid Convoys in Syria, 3 Days After Attack A procession of trucks arrived in a Damascus suburb, as officials met in New York to resuscitate a precarious cease-fire. === GENEVA — The A 25-truck convoy left Damascus with supplies for 40,000 people in Moadamiya, a suburb of the capital, according to Jan Egeland, a United Nations special adviser for humanitarian affairs. Officials later said that the convoy had arrived in the afternoon, after lengthy delays but without incident. The United Nations had trucks loaded and ready to leave for other besieged towns before the end of the week, including Madaya, Kfarya, Fouaa and Zabadani, Mr. Egeland told reporters in Geneva. “We seem to be getting the permits and support we need,” Mr. Egeland said, while cautioning that the attack on the convoy on Monday, the deadliest in the five years of Syria’s civil war, had cast doubt on the safety and reliability of procedures that have provided the basis for aid deliveries to millions of Syrians. “We need a reboot, a restart for security assurances and guarantees for the humanitarian lifeline,” Mr. Egeland said. American officials have said that In an “Those convoys were in the area of the militants, the area under the control of the terrorists,” he said. “We don’t have any idea about what happened.” Mr. Assad also said that a United States airstrike on Saturday that killed about 60 people identified as Syrian government troops was “definitely intentional, not unintentional, as they claimed.” The Pentagon has said that the pilots behind that strike intended to target Islamic State fighters and called it off after a warning from Russia that the attack might be hitting Syrian troops. The airstrike, and the attack on the convoy, threatened to unravel a partial cease-fire that began on Sept. 12. The resumption of humanitarian assistance convoys on Thursday came as the United States, Russia and regional powers in the International Syria Support Group prepared to meet in New York to try to find ways of resuscitating the cease-fire and jump-starting peace talks in Geneva on a political transition in Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry, reacting to the aid convoy attack, called on Wednesday for the immediate grounding of all military aircraft in areas where aid is delivered, but without any immediate result. Rebel-held areas in the divided city of Aleppo experienced heavy airstrikes overnight, including with incendiary weapons that set parts of it ablaze and left any breakthrough to peace talks still looking a distant prospect. Despite the resumption of aid convoys inside Syria, Mr. Egeland said 40 trucks loaded with supplies of food and medicine destined for rebel-held eastern Aleppo remained on the border with Turkey, unable to move from the customs zone where they have been stuck for a week waiting for government forces and armed groups to pull back from the road into the city. Mr. Assad, in his interview with The A.P., denied that Aleppo was under siege, but Mr. Egeland told reporters that it was encircled by military forces and “it’s impossible to get in.”