Friday, October 19, 2012

Fighters say Syrian warplanes drop cluster bombs; Brahimi arrives in Damascus- Al-Arabiya

Syrian regime warplanes have dropped cluster bombs in sorties against rebels in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan, the fighters told AFP on Friday.

The fighters showed an AFP correspondent in the battleground Idlib province town debris from one such cluster bomb and dozens of other bomblets that failed to explode on impact.

On Sunday, Human Rights Watch issued a statement accusing the Syrian air force of using cluster bombs against the rebels and in populated areas across the strife-torn country...

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/19/244669.html