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U.N. panel documents decade of war crimes

Syria's combatants have taken advantage of the international community's disastrous failures, the chair of a panel of U.N. investigators said.

War-damaged Aleppo, formerly Syria's largest city
War-damaged Aleppo, formerly Syria's largest city (AN/Aladdin Hammami)

Syria's combatants have taken advantage of the international community's disastrous failures, the chair of a panel of United Nations investigators said on Thursday while presenting a new report documenting a decade of atrocities committed during the brutal civil war.

Brazilian diplomat and scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who heads the U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, said the  latest report shows how "parties to this conflict have benefited from the selective intervention and woeful negligence of the international community, that has left no Syrian family unscathed" since the conflict erupted in March 2011.

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