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Russia vetoes UN resolution extending cross-border aid to Syria

A convoy transporting humanitarian aid crosses into Syria from Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing [Omar Haj Kadour/AFP]

Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid to Syria by one year without Damascus’s backing.

The authorisation for aid deliveries across the Syria-Turkey border at Bab al-Hawa, which has been in effect since 2014, is set to expire on Sunday. The aid is a lifeline for more than 2.4 million people in the northwestern Idlib region of Syria, under the control of rebels.

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