Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied using “indiscriminate weapons” on rebel areas, causing massive civilian casualties, appears in denial about his role in causing the ongoing civil war in his country.
The Italian coastguard have boarded and taken control of a ship carrying 450 migrants, which was abandoned by its crew off Italy’s coast.
The Assad regime have detained more than 215,000 Syrians since the uprising began in 2012, according to a new report.
The Assad regime and militants from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have been accused of committing “mass atrocities” in Syria, in a report by the UN Human Rights Council.
More than 191,000 people have been killed in th Syrian conflict up to April, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says.