Human Rights Watch is accusing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of killing more than 4,300 civilians in air strikes since last summer. In a new report, the group says many attacks were indiscriminate, deliberate and amount to war crimes. Human Rights Watch Associate Director Anna Neistat said most of the strikes hit areas where no fighting was taking place.

Anna Neistat: “We believe that more than 4,000 civilians have been killed as a result of aerial attacks. It is an enormous number, and most of the civilians died in areas where there is no fighting going on, where there is no military activity. These are civilians that were either deliberately targeted or killed as a result of unlawful, indiscriminate attacks, which we believe were committed willfully and thus constitute war crimes.”