The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) documented 60 massacres which took place during the month of January 2016, 39 of which were carried out by Russian war planes, whilst the Syrian regime forces were responsible for 15 massacres, the international alliance responsible for one massacre, and ISIS responsible for three. The perpetrators behind two other massacres were unknown.
Aleppo witnessed the highest number of massacres with 21 taking place in the province, followed by the province of Deir Ezzour in which 12 took place, and then Idlib in which 11 massacres took place, and Damascus in which seven massacres took place.