Human rights in Syria

The U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria released a 21-page report Sept. 11saying acts of U.S.-led coalition, the Syrian regime and Russia might amount to war crimes.       

International investigators entered on April 17 a Syrian town hit by an alleged chemical attack, after days of delay and warnings by
Western powers that crucial evidence had likely been removed.

A member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Aug. 6 she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the U.N. Security Council had made the job impossible, Swiss national news agency SDA reported. 

Victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria appeared to show symptoms consistent with reaction to a nerve agent, the World Health Organization said on April 5. 

"Some cases appear to show additional signs consistent with exposure to organophosphorus chemicals, a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents," WHO said in a statement, putting the death toll at at least 70.

Detainees held by the Syrian government are dying on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of "extermination" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said on Feb. 8. 

Rebel fire killed eight people in Syria's second city Aleppo June 18, the latest in a spate of civilian deaths in government-held districts this week, a monitoring group said.