It's a Kurdish area, and there has been an informal agreement between the Syrian authorities and the Kurds that the Kurds in a sense can have fairly free rein in that part. It is, I would say, compared with other groups, other areas, controlled by opposition elements. I would say the regime is less threatened by that. In a sense it does not present for them the kind of red line that other areas controlled by the opposition or crossing from Turkey would have. It's a little more open.
They have also allowed us to do convoys from Iraq and air drops into Hasakah, also for the same reasons.
Yes, I would say that there is an understanding, if I can call it that, between the Kurds who control that area and the regime, which is obviously not the case elsewhere.