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According to the Syrian Center for Policy Research, an independent Syrian research organization, the death toll from the conflict as of February 2. The spread and intensification of fighting has led to a dire humanitarian crisis, with 6. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. By mid- 2. 01. 6, an estimated 1 million people were living in besieged areas and denied life- saving assistance and humanitarian aid. More than 1. 17,0. January and June 2.

Syrian Network for Human Rights. Torture and ill- treatment are rampant in detention facilities; thousands have died in detention.

The Islamic State (also known as ISIS), and the former Al- Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al- Nusra, which changed its name to Jabhat Fath al- Sham, were responsible for systematic and widespread violations, including targeting civilians with artillery, kidnappings, and executions. Non- state armed groups opposing the government also carried out serious abuses including indiscriminate attacks against civilians, using child soldiers, kidnapping, unlawfully blocking humanitarian aid, and torture. In its fourth report, released this year, the Joint Investigative Mechanism between the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN concluded that Syrian government forces used chemicals in an attack in Idlib in March 2. The inquiry also identified the military units responsible for flights connected to the attacks but could not name the commanders of the units due to the Syrian government’s failure to respond to crucial queries. In an earlier report, the joint inquiry had reached the same conclusion for two other attacks, in 2. The inquiry also previously found that ISIS had used sulfur mustard gas in an attack on areas held by armed opposition groups in August 2. On October 2. 8, Russia lost its seat at the Human Rights Council after failing to secure enough votes for re- election from UN member states.

Several human rights and humanitarian relief organizations, including Human Rights Watch, had urged UN member states to hold Russia accountable for its involvement in possible war crimes. The Russian- Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month- long aerial bombing campaign of opposition- controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2. Targeting Civilians, Indiscriminate Attacks, Use of Incendiary Weapons, Cluster Munitions, and Chemical Weapons. The number of civilian deaths from airstrikes and artillery decreased slightly following internationally brokered ceasefires in February and September, but only briefly, and unlawful attacks on civilians by all parties to the conflict persisted throughout the year. Syrian and Russian airstrikes continued to target, or indiscriminately strike civilian areas, including homes, markets, schools, and hospitals, using wide- area explosives, barrel bombs, cluster munitions, and flammable incendiary weapons. In 2. 01. 6, Human Rights Watch documented several attacks on homes, medical facilities, markets, and schools that appeared to be targeted, including a major airstrike by the Syrian- Russian coalition that hit al- Quds Hospital and surrounding areas on April 2.

In August alone, there were several attacks on health facilities including in Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, and Homs. Government forces used at least 1.

July 2. 01. 2 to August 2. The Syrian- Russian joint military operations, which began on September 3. Cluster munitions have been outlawed by most countries since their submunitions fall over a wide area, failing to distinguish between fighters and civilians and because many submunitions fail to explode and become de facto land mines that can explode, if disturbed, even after many years if they are not cleared. Government forces, and their allies, also increasingly resorted to the use of incendiary weapons, with at least 1.

Aleppo and Idlib between June 5 and August 1. In June, Russia Today broadcasted footage of incendiary weapons—specifically RBK- 5. ZAB- 2. 5. SM bombs—being mounted on a Russian Su- 3. Syrian airbase. Incendiary weapons induce a chain of chemical reactions that ignite fires which are hard to extinguish and cause excruciatingly painful burns that are difficult to treat. A total of 1. 13 countries including Russia (but not Syria) have ratified the Convention on Conventional Weapons protocol prohibiting the use of air- delivered incendiary weapons in areas with a "concentration of civilians."While Russia continues to deny its involvement in incendiary weapons attacks in Syria, Syria has persistently ignored calls to sign the protocol and its military forces’ use of incendiary weapons has been documented since the end of 2. Government forces also continued using toxic chemicals in several barrel bomb attacks in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs with toxic chemicals on residential neighborhoods in opposition- controlled parts of Aleppo city on August 1. September 6. In a report issued on August 2. UN- appointed investigation attributed two chemical weapon attacks earlier in 2.

Syrian government and one to ISIS, which is already under UN sanctions. Unlawful Restrictions on Humanitarian Assistance. The siege of civilian areas by government and pro- government forces and by armed opposition groups and blocking of humanitarian aid continued in 2. The Syrian government continued requiring aid agencies to go through a bureaucratic approval system to obtain permits before accessing these areas.

The UN secretary- general said that even in areas where aid was allowed in, the Syrian government has removed life- saving items from convoys. In February alone, the government prevented 8. UN said. Humanitarian conditions in areas besieged by government and pro- government forces rapidly deteriorated, forcing civilians to leave these areas. Residents of Daraya, Damascus countryside, were forced to evacuate the city following a four- year siege on August 2.

On September 1. 9, 2. UN humanitarian aid convoy and a Syrian Red Crescent warehouse in Urum al- Kubra in Aleppo, killing 2.

Most of the aid, including food and medical supplies, was to be distributed to at least 7. Syrian Red Crescent statement. The UN said that the convoy had received proper permits from the Syrian government in advance to cross from government- controlled Aleppo to parts of opposition- held western Aleppo to deliver the aid.

Arbitrary Arrests, Enforced Disappearances, Torture, and Deaths in Custody. Arbitrary detention, ill- treatment, torture, and forced disappearances by government forces continue to be widespread and systematic in Syria, and take place within a climate of impunity. Deaths in government detention from widespread torture, abuse, starvation, beatings, and disease is also extensive with at least 1. March 2. 01. 1 and June 2. A September report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria noted that while stigma and trauma has led to an underreporting of sexual violence, they were able to document some cases of sexual violence against male and female detainees by government officials. Government security forces used excessive force to quell a riot inside the Hama Central Prison that began on May 1, resulting in some injuries, according to prisoners who spoke to Human Rights Watch.