Russia Should Be Held Accountable for Any War Crimes in Syria

Expand Residents rescue injured child after strike on the displacement center in Hass on August 16, 2019. © MacroMedia Center 2019 A December 1 New York Times investigation found that Russian aircraft were responsible for an August strike in the last anti-government held area in Syria. Two months ago, my colleague and I investigated the same attack, finding that it amounted to an apparent war crime. On the evening of August 16, an aircraft bombed a displacement compound run by a Syrian aid organization just outside Hass, a town in Idlib governorate. The attack killed 20 people, mostly women…

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