Syria's war rages on, 7 years later
BEIRUT - Slightly more than four years ago, Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist who died Wednesday, described what was happening in Syria as "an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance."
It was finally time, he wrote, to say "no more."
Yet more is what has come to Syria, which has become an emblem of man-made misery in a conflict that marked its seventh anniversary Thursday.
The crisis, which began as part of the "Arab Spring" uprisings, disintegrated into a hellish civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands. The United Nations gave up tracking the numbers
