Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks during an emergency meeting on Syria on Sunday at the United Nations. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images)The United States accused Russia of “barbarism” and war crimes in Syria on Sunday as Moscow’s airstrikes over Aleppo pushed a humanitarian crisis there to new depths. “Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war,” said Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Despite frantic diplomacy to get that truce back on track, Sunday’s Security Council meeting suggested that divisions between the two sides were deepening. “The best thing the U.N. Security Council can do is stop their talking,” Hamdo said.

Source: Washington Post September 25, 2016 22:23 UTC