The UN has confirmed it has successfully carried out its first Syrian aid air drop into the besieged city of Deir Ezzor.

Previously the UN has been reliant on driving aid in Credit: REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

Relief chief Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council on Wednesday that a plane carrying 21 tonnes of humanitarian items had dispatched its cargo as planned as the organisation begins to use air drops as a way to effectively deliver humanitarian aid.