The 15-nation council has broken its 6-month-long silence on the escalating crisis

Observers say US should use its leverage to get Moscow to stop holding up aid to Syrian war victims

Aid will flow through only one crossing point from Turkey into NW Syria, leaving 1.3 million people

With only hours to go before authorization expires for the aid routes from Turkey to northwest Syria

If the council does not reach a compromise by Friday, aid convoys from Turkey into northwest Syria w