The Syrian regime is expanding its use of widely banned cluster bombs, an international human rights group said in a report yesterday as the deadlocked conflict entered its third year.
In the past six months, Syrian forces have dropped at least 156 cluster bombs in 119 locations, causing mounting civilian casualties, New York-based Human Rights Watch said. Two strikes in the past two weeks killed 11 civilians, including two women and five children.
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