UN: At least nine massacres carried out in Syria

At least eight massacres have been perpetrated in Syria by President Bashar Assad’s regime and its supporters and one has been carried out by rebels over the past year and a half, a UN commission has said.

Calling Syria a battlefield where “massacres are perpetrated with impunity”, the UN commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria also said it is probing nine more suspected mass killings since March.