Russia halts UN Security Council statement on Syria's Idlib

Russia blocked the U.N. Security Council on Monday from issuing a statement sounding alarm about the increasing fighting in and around Syria's Idlib province and the possibility of a humanitarian disaster, a council diplomat said. The thwarted statement marked the latest in a series of logjams over Syria in the U.N.'s most influential body.

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