Syria-Russia Attack on Refuge an Apparent War Crime

Expand Residents rescue injured child after strike on the displacement center in Hass on August 16, 2019. © MacroMedia Center 2019 (Beirut) – A Syrian-Russian military alliance strike on a displacement compound in mid-August is an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Witnesses said there was no apparent military target for the attack in the town of Hass, in Idlib governate. The strike killed at least 20 civilians at the center and displaced about 200 survivors. They fled to nearby villages and displacement compounds along the closed Turkish border under the control of the anti-government…

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