Monitor: Syrian Army Bombards Douma as Air Raid Toll Rises

The Syrian military bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where around 100 people were killed on Sunday in an airstrike on a market, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Sunday's airstrike on Douma, 10 miles (15 km) northeast of Damascus, was one of the bloodiest attacks of its type in the four-year-long war that has killed an estimated quarter of a million people and driven 10 million from their homes. The U.N....

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