{"id":1138,"date":"2015-03-24T21:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:18:49","slug":"syria-opposition-attacked-civilians-indiscriminately-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/03\/24\/syria-opposition-attacked-civilians-indiscriminately-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria opposition attacked civilians &#8216;indiscriminately&#8217;: HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian armed opposition groups, among them jihadists but also Western-backed rebels, have indiscriminately targeted civilians in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report, the New York-based group said it had documented dozens of opposition attacks against civilians in government-held parts of Syria (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The report said several dozen car bomb attacks in Damascus and Homs provinces had hit areas with no government military targets, and often targeted districts occupied by religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p>HRW also documented regular indiscriminate shelling by opposition groups on the capital Damascus and Homs city, mostly against civilian areas, and in some cases schools full of children.<\/p>\n<p>The groups responsible for the indiscriminate attacks ranged from jihadists like the Islamic State group to rebels grouped under the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, the report said (&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian armed opposition groups, among them jihadists but also Western-backed rebels, have indiscriminately targeted civilians in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. In a new report, the New York-based group said it had documented dozens of opposition attacks against civilians in government-held parts of Syria (&#8230;) The report said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[460,371,461,462,463],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-middle-east","tag-attacked","tag-civilians","tag-hrw","tag-opposition","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}