Rights Group Reports 18 Recent Incendiary Weapons Attacks in Syria

Human Rights Watch has called on nations that will confer in Geneva this month on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to condemn the use of air-dropped incendiary weapons in civilian areas in Syria. The New York group said Tuesday that the joint Syrian-Russian military operation had used incendiary weapons at least 18 times in the past nine weeks, injuring at least 12 civilians. The rights group said it had reviewed photos and video taken at the time of the attacks between...

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