An international war crimes prosecutor Stephen Rapp said evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run “machinery of death” under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad. According to Rapp more than 100,000 people have been tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting two mass grave sites in the towns of Qutayfah and…
Activists in Idlib said that Syrian and Russian warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on Monday on areas taken over by rebels in north-west Syria during a surprise offensive. According to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence organization which works in rebel-held areas, there were civilian casualties and numerous residential buildings were destroyed. An…
Escalated Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed 16 members of four Syrian families, including women and children, a war monitor reported. The death toll among Syrian refugees, who had fled the war in Syria seeking safety in Lebanon, continues to rise as the conflict intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah, a Britain-based war monitor said. With Monday’s…
