SYRIA: ‘U.N. Investigators Say Syria Bombed Convoy and Did So Deliberately’, New York Times, 1 March 2017

The Syrian Air Force dropped barrel bombs from helicopters on a UN humanitarian aid convoy, then fired rockets, then strafed survivors with machine guns, UN investigators said in a report that found government forces had not only committed the attack in September but had done so deliberately, a war crime. The report, by a UN commission of inquiry that has been monitoring Syria's conflict for years, is one of the most hard-hitting official assessments yet. 'U.N. Investigators Say Syria Bombed Convoy and Did So Deliberately', New York Times, 1 March 2017.