UNITED NATIONS: Russia and the United States clashed at the United Nations over the carnage in Syria on Wednesday, as air strikes pounded Aleppo following the collapse of a ceasefire.
The UN Security Council met for tense crisis talks to try to revive the truce and chart a course toward ending the five-year war in Syria that has killed 300,000 people.
“We are at a make or break moment,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the council, urging world powers to use their influence to help restart political talks so Syrians can “negotiate a way out of the hell in which they are trapped.”
Russia and the United States negotiated the latest ceasefire plan, but Syria ended the truce on Monday following an apparently accidental US-led coalition strike on Syrian soldiers.
Shortly after the truce ended, a UN aid convoy was hit in an air strike that US officials have blamed on Russia.
