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    U.N. Security Council To Try Again For Syria Cease-Fire Resolution

    A draft resolution calling for a 30-day humanitarian cease-fire for emergency aid deliveries and medical evacuations has so far been stalled by threat of a Russian veto.
    by Scott Neuman Feb 23, 2018 1 minute
    A lightly wounded Syrian girl is carried by a man at a makeshift clinic following Syrian government bombardments in Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on Thursday.

    The United Nations Security Council is expected to try again on Friday to approve a draft resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria.

    The cease-fire is meant to allow emergency aid to be delivered and

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