Feb. 22, 2018, 2:42 p.m.
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 ceasefire to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil war and prevent a "massacre".
