Syria accused of cluster bomb use in civil war

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian regime was accused Sunday of dropping cluster bombs — indiscriminate scattershot munitions banned by most nations — in a new sign of desperation and disregard for its own people. The international group Human Rights Watch cited amateur video and testimony from the front lines in making the allegation against the government of President Bashar Assad. Syria and Turkey, meanwhile, declared their skies off-limits to each other amid mounting cross-border tensions in Syria's 19-month-old conflict, now a civil war. Turkey is an outspoken backer of rebels trying to oust Assad. The weekend's mutual ban on overflights is part of Turkey's increasingly assertive stance toward...