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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Washington - Ali Barada

‘Dark Day’ Prevents Cross-Border Humanitarian Aid to Millions of Syrians

Syrian women activists at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey during a rally to demand the extension of the resolution to deliver humanitarian aid across the border. (DPA)

Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid from Turkey to some four million people in opposition-controlled northwest Syria by one year without Damascus's backing.

Western powers then voted down a competing resolution put forward by Moscow that proposed extending approval by just six months.

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