"אין כמעט יום שעובר, כאשר החושים שלנו לא הלמה על ידי התפרצות חדשה של הטרור במזרח התיכון. Despite our best efforts at making and keeping the peace, פוליטי, כלכלי, ומתחים דתיים מובילות לעתים אי שקט, אלימות, ו מהומות. "

-ג'ים באקר ב "לשגשוג אפוקליפסה בא"

The UN has issued a report stating that the Syrian Army is responsible for the most serious human rights abuses in the nation since March 2012.

The report listed many “unlawful killings” conducted by Syrian military forces to stop anti-government demostrations in Idlib, Hama, Damascus and four other cities & numerous villages.

The report said that “too often the civilians born the brunt of the violence” between government and opposition forces.

Government forces also used indiscriminate shelling of residential villages where the soldiers claimed people sympathetic to the Free Syrian Army were hiding among the houses. After the shelling, government snipers would come in and shoot those on the street. The government forces also executed entire families inside their homes.

Boys as young as 10 years old were tortured by government interrogators to make them claim other family members were part of the opposition Free Syrian Army. Children wounded by gunfire or torture were denied medical treatment. Children died due to lack of adequate health care during government blockades.

The report also cited attacks by the government opposition forces but noted they were not nearly as widespread as those by government troops.