Warplanes targeted Harasta city in the Rif Dimashq province on Tuesday with two air raids consisting of rockets loaded with the internationally-prohibited material incendiary Napalm. The two air raids targeted residential areas in the city with four rockets in each raid. This led to the outbreak of fires in many residential buildings, and the suffocation […]
Ninth Russian Veto Disrupts Rights of Chemical Attacks Victims
On Tuesday evening 24/10/2017, The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to take a resolution to extend the mandate of the Commission that investigates the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the parties involved in this, when the Russian Federation (RF) exercised it’s right of veto in the UNSC against the submitted draft resolution. […]
Al-Wa’er Subjected to Napalm Bombs and Explosive Cylinders
The Syrian regime has resumed its bombing of the besieged district of al-Wa’er in the city of Homs with mortar rockets, explosive cylinders, and internationally prohibited incendiary napalm bombs, killing four people and causing fires to erupt across the district. Victims identified include: Marwa Ammar Abdul Latif Raheeb al-Mahmoud Ridwan Raheeb al-Mahmoud
On the International Day for Refugees: Over Half of All Syrians Have Left Their Homes
Five years ago in June 2011, the displacement and refugee crisis of Syrian began. Since then, it has only increased, rising from several thousand refugees at the end of June 2011 to at least 11.5 million Syrians who have been forced to leave their homes during this period. At the end of May 2016, the […]
Phosphorous Bombs Rain over Rural Western Aleppo
On Sunday dawn, war planes targeted the villages of rural western Aleppo with internationally prohibited Phosphorous bombs, causing fires to spread on a wide scale across the areas which were targeted. The air strikes containing phosphorous bombs targeted the city of Andan, and the towns of Ainjarah, Qabtan al-Jabal, and Orm al-Kubra, as well as […]
Napalm and Cluster Bomb Air Strikes on Idlib
Two were killed and 32 injured in air strikes launched by war planes on the city of Idlib. The air strikes targeted the grocery market, the Sham’at roundabout, Shuaib Mosque, the State Security Roundabout, the Yahya Dahnain School, the compound, and the Carlton Campus hotel. Documentation carried out by SHRC reveals that the majority of […]
Five Years of Continuous Violations and Absent Justice
On 15/3/2011, civilian protests erupted in a number of Syrian cities, rapidly spreading to other cities, before transforming into military clashes which took place in parallel with the protests, consequently increasing the level of violence witnessed in the country. This report compiled by SHRC, documents the most prominent of violations witnessed in Syria over the […]
Four Die from Land Mine Explosion in Rural Idlib
A land mine at the village of Ain Larooz, close to the city of Areeha in rural Idlib, exploded on Sunday evening, killing four people and injuring several others. It is worthy to note that Syrian regime forces and ISIS have been using land mines in a systematic manner in the areas that they retreat […]
Douma Targeted with Internationally Prohibited Cluster Bombs
The city of Douma in rural Damascus was targeted with ten cluster bombs, leading to the death of 12 people and the injury of tens of others. Cluster bombs are internationally prohibited weapons, the shells of which split into several other shells upon their release into the air, in order to cause the largest effect […]