WorldSyria's air force deliberately bombed water sources in December, a war crime that cut off water for 5.5 million people in and around the capital Damascus, the U.N. The commission said it had found no evidence of deliberate contamination of the water supply or demolition by armed groups, as the Syrian government maintained at the time. Rebels had controlled the springs of the Wadi Barada valley, northwest of Damascus since 2012 and faced a major offensive by Syrian government forces and their allies, despite a ceasefire deal. The attack was one of several war crimes committed by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the report said. “There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Air Force deliberately targeted the Haas schools complex,” it said.

Source: Sunday Times March 14, 2017 14:48 UTC