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Between February 2014 and January 2015, Human Rights Watch reports that "at least 450 major damage sites" in Syria "showed damage consistent with barrel bomb detonations". A local Syrian group estimates that in the first year after UN resolution 2139 was passed, aerial barrel bomb attacks killed 6,163 civilians in Syria, including 1,892 children.
Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. ... Syria live updates: Israel launches ...
Syria’s civil war is back in the spotlight after a new rebel coalition launched a surprise attack, capturing two major cities, shattering the stalemate of a war that never formally ended.. The ...
Watch live as David Lammy delivers a statement in Parliament on Monday, 9 December, after Syria’s brutal Assad regime came to an end. Syrians are celebrating the demise of Bashar al-Assad’s ...
According to three international lawyers, [5] Syrian government officials were expected to risk facing war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the "systematic killing" of about 11,000 detainees, constituting the 2014 Syrian detainee report.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty for numerous offences in Syria.The Syrian government holds a retentionist view of capital punishment. [1] Current laws allow the death penalty for treason; espionage; murder; arson resulting in death; attempting a death-eligible crime; recidivism for a felony punishable by forced labor for life; political acts and military offences such as bearing arms ...
This meeting, Nour said, would be aimed at finding a longer-term solution to Syria's 13-year-old simmering civil war – in particular its underpinning by non-state actors such as Hezbollah at a ...
The government doubled public sector salaries in August (to 85,940 Syrian pounds, worth $21.76 at the official exchange rate or $12.40 at the market rate), but increased fuel prices (to 8,000 Syrian pounds -$0.53- per litre from 3,000 pounds, and fuel oil to 2,000 pounds per litre from 700 pounds) and had been reducing subsidies for necessities ...