the use of barrel bombs and indiscriminate bombardment in syria aleppo city
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The use of barrel bombs and indiscriminate bombardment in Syria
Aleppo city
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Indiscriminate bombardment
• Primary cause of death, displacement and destruction• Perpetrated by all parties• But in considerably different scales
Homs city
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State forces
• Part of their strategy
• Area bombardment campaigns
• Extensive use of Air Force and
unguided bombs
Plane fires a missile, Aleppo city, Sept 2012
Unexploded “gravity bomb” in Aleppo, OFAB 100-120
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AGAGs
AGAGs shelling Damascus, Jan 2015
AGAGs shelling Nubul, Jan 2015
• Matter of capabilities
• Mortars, artillery and IEDs
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ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra
• Shelling, part of tactical schemes
• Primarily suicide bombings and
VBIEDs
ISIS shelling Kobane, Jan 2015
Jabhat Nusra, Aleppo countryside, 2014
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Barrel bombs
• Lethal and destructive
• Disrupt normalcy under rebels
• Cheaper for protracted campaigns
• Allowed optimal use of air assetsUnexploded barrel bomb in Aleppo city
Syrian helicopter dropping BB
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Impacts
• Used in Area bombardment
• Includes fragmentation or
incendiary effect
• Caused large displacementsAerial bombardment in Aleppo city
Damage around the Great Mosque of Aleppo