NEW YORK (AP) – You can dunk Samsung’s new smartphones in water, but don’t drop them on a sidewalk, a new study finds. SquareTrade, a company that offers extended-protection plans for gadgets, said the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge still functioned after being submerged in water for 30 minutes. Audio …

BEIRUT (AP) – After five years of bloodshed – after a quarter of a million deaths, and the flight of millions of refugees – Syria has arrived at a critical juncture: A diplomatic framework is in place to end the carnage, a two-week-old partial cease-fire is holding, and peace talks …

As the war in Syria enters its sixth year with no clear end in sight, here is a glance on what has been the cost of the war: DEAD AND INJURED – There are no reliably precise statistics on the number of people killed in Syria’s war due to an …