BEIRUT, Lebanon — Commanders of the Free Syrian Army, the main umbrella group for fighters opposing President Bashar al-Assad, said Saturday that they had moved their headquarters from Turkey into "liberated areas" inside Syria, in what they portrayed as a major step forward in their efforts to aid, coordinate and control disparate groups of rebels.
VICE News obtained all three letters and confirmed their dissemination with multiple UN employees both in New York and Yemen, as well as with aid workers who received them through NGO coalitions that help coordinate aid efforts around the world.
To help coordinate aid, the Pentagon is considering the establishment of a separate military command in Pakistan.
Mr. Ban was also scheduled to attend a meeting on Sunday of international donors in Yangon, where he hoped to help coordinate aid, along with Myanmar's neighbors in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean.
Instead, islanders suggest people on the mainland help coordinate aid. .
The plane also carried two UNICEF staff members who were deployed to help coordinate aid distribution.
Under its three-year contract, awarded in May 2004, Aegis was to protect American aid officials and help coordinate the dozens of other private security companies hired by corporate contractors.
Twitter has been used by Iranian dissidents; text messaging and social networking Web sites have been used to help coordinate humanitarian aid in Haiti; YouTube has been used by professors to teach math and chemistry.
"Most of them are utterly heartbreaking," he said while staring at a list of messages sent to him through a new emergency relief effort that relies on text messages and social networking Web sites to help coordinate humanitarian aid in Haiti.
"Providing aid, advice and assistance; coordinating immunization campaigns; addressing undernutrition and empowering communities and families to build healthy environments makes a difference in the lives of millions of children around the world".
