U.N. pleads for truce to avert 'massacre' as strikes hit Syria's Ghouta for fifth day

AMMAN (Reuters) - Warplanes pounded the last rebel enclave near the Syrian capital for a fifth straight day on Thursday, as the United Nations pleaded for a truce to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil and prevent a "massacre".

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