The rebel government in the northwest has been very reluctant about accepting offers of help from other parts of Syria. Since 2014, there's been a UN Security Council resolution that allows the UN to deliver aid from Turkey into northwest Syria without the consent of the regime in Damascus. What Assad has now agreed to do is to let aid flow through two additional border posts between Turkey and northwest Syria. And what we've seen even before the earthquakes was that the Arab opposition to him was softened.