UN Security Council fails to adopt resolution on cease-fire in Syria's Idlib

Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari (front) addresses a Security Council meeting on Syria at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 19, 2019. The Security Council on Thursday voted on two competing draft resolutions on a cease-fire in Syria's Idlib, but failed to adopt either of them. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)