DAMASCUS: More than 100,000 people have now been killed in the Syrian civil war, United Nations (UN) leader Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday (Friday in Manila), as he appealed for new efforts to convene a peace conference.

The UN chief and United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters at the United Nations there could be no military solution to the 28-month-old conflict, which began as peaceful protests inspired by the Arab Spring but rapidly boiled over into an all-out war.

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