UN fails to extend aid deliveries to Syrian rebel-held area

Women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria, on March 12, 2020. (Felipe Dana/AP)

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council failed in two rival votes Friday to extend humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest, with the U.S. ambassador warning that "people will die because of this vote."

After days of consultations, the U.N.'s most powerful body remained divided over the key issue of the length of an extension.