A bipartisan group of US lawmakers urged the United Nations to reopen a key border crossing into Syria that Russia shut down in January using its veto power at the Security Council.
Senate and House foreign affairs chairmen James Risch, R-Idaho, and Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., joined ranking members Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Mike McCaul, R-Texas, in a statement calling on the UN to “renew two humanitarian crossings in northwest Syria and restore the humanitarian crossing in northeast Syria.”