In the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Moadhamiya, residents say a renewed Syrian government siege there and bombardment of the neighboring town of Daraya have cut off the last food-smuggling routes, forcing many to subsist on one meal a day. Similar humanitarian crises are playing out around Syria, where residents, rebels and international aid agencies accuse the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of reinstating or tightening sieges on opposition-held areas to help subdue, reclaim or hold strategic territory. The government’s siege tactics have become more systematic and have escalated over the past two months, part of an overall military effort to secure more territory and strengthen the government’s hand ahead of United Nations-brokered peace talks set to begin in Geneva on Friday, Western diplomats, aid officials and Syrian rebels say. The sieges are occurring despite extreme international pressure to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to millions of civilians ahead of […]