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Syrian forces pound town near Damascus after allegedly waging another poison gas attack
Syrian government forces on Wednesday attacked a rebel-held town southwest of Damascus with artillery fire and helicopters dropped barrel bombs as opposition groups accused the government of using poison gas in an assault there the previous night. Five people, among them one civilian, died of ...
Russian drone zooms in on Damascus-area destruction, much of it Assad-inflicted
Video of a Damascus neighborhood filmed by a Russian drone has provided a rare glimpse into the staggering scale of destruction that years of fighting has inflicted around the Syrian capital, seat of President Bashar Assad's power. The video shot over the district of Jobar ...
Syrian barrel bomb raid believed killed dozens of civilians; U.N. slams attack, ups toll
A Syrian air force raid killed at least 59 civilians at a market in a town held by Islamic State militants in northern Syria on Saturday, according to a monitoring group. The strike on the town of al-Bab, northeast of Aleppo, used barrel bombs, which ...
Devastating use of barrel bombs in Syria, Iraq
In spite of a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the use of "barrel bombs" — a type of improvised explosive device filled with shrapnel, oil and chemicals — both the Syrian and Iraqi governments continue to use them against civilians.
