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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/world/middleeast/united-nations-syria-idlib-russia.html
UN Panel Says Russia Bombed Syrian Civilian Targets, a War Crime
(New York Times) Nick Cumming-Bruce - UN investigators said on Monday that Russia had committed war crimes in Syria by carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes on civilian targets in 2019. These include an attack on a market last July 22, killing at least 43 civilians, and an airstrike on a camp for displaced civilians in August that killed at least 20 people. The investigators also said that Syrian rebels allied with Turkey had carried out war crimes during the invasion of Kurdish areas in northern Syria, and that al-Qaeda-linked rebels had inflicted scores of civilian casualties in rocket attacks on government-held areas. The accusations appear in the latest report of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, a Geneva-based panel that has been monitoring the nearly decade-old conflict.