Violence continues to spread to the Syrian capital of Damascus in the conflict between the regime of Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces seeking his overthrow. Earlier today, two bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in central Damascus, with no immediate word on casualties. The attack comes one day after gunmen killed seven people in an attack on a pro-government television station near the capital. The United Nations, meanwhile, is warning human rights violations by both sides of the Syria conflict are intensifying, with extrajudicial and sectarian killings on the rise. Speaking in Geneva, U.N. investigator Paulo Pinheiro said the United Nations’s findings could be used one day in the prosecution of Syrian officials for war crimes.

Paulo Pinheiro: “We did something that is common with some commissions of inquiry, that we provided a list of names and units of the force, military force or security sections of the government of Syria, that based in our evidence would be able to be investigated as being responsible for gross human rights violations and international crimes.”