PARIS (Reuters) - France will not "close its eyes" to the Syrian conflict despite other crises taking centre stage, French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday, promising to increase efforts to reach a political solution.
More than 140,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million have fled abroad as refugees in an increasingly sectarian civil war. The conflict began with mass street protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 but turned into an armed insurgency after he cracked down violently on demonstrators.
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