Remnant of an expended cargo section of one of the two 220mm 9M27K-seriesUragansurface-launched cluster munition rockets embedded into the ground after it scattered its payload of explosive submunitions on a sidewalk next to a boys' school in the town of Termanin, Syria, October 6, 2023. 2023 Syria Civil Defence (Beirut) - Syrian government forces used widely banned cluster munitions in an attack on Termanin, a town in northern Idlib, on October 6, 2023, killing two civilians and injuring nine others, Human Rights Watch said today. The next day, a 9-year-old boy picked up a munition that had failed to detonate on impact during the attack. It exploded, injuring him and two others. This attack was part of a larger military campaign by Syrian and Russian forces on opposition-held northwest Syria that started on October 5 and had, as of October 27, affected more than "2,300 locations" across Idlib and western Aleppo. At least 70 people have been killed, including 3 aid work
Northwest Syria: Government Uses Cluster Munitions [EN/AR] - Syrian Arab Republic reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Syrian government forces used widely banned cluster munitions in an attack on Termanin, a town in northern Idlib, on October 6, 2023, killing two civilians and injuring nine others, Human Rights Watch said today.