<sod>[[Human Rights Watch]] reported extensive use of [[cluster munition]]s by Syria and Russia, in violation of United Nations resolution 2139 of February 22, 2014, which demanded that all parties end "indiscriminate employment of weapons in populated areas". Human Rights Watch said that "Russian or Syrian forces were responsible for the attacks" and that the munitions were "manufactured in the former Soviet Union or Russia" and that some were of a type that had "not been documented as used in Syria" prior to Russia's involvement in the war, which they claimed, suggested that "either Russian aircraft dropped them or Russian authorities recently provided the Syrian government with more cluster munitions, or both".<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/20/russia/syria-extensive-recent-use-cluster-munitions |title=Russia/Syria: Extensive Recent Use of Cluster Munitions &#124; Human Rights Watch |website=Hrw.org |date= |accessdate=2016-02-28}}</ref><eod>
<sod>[[Human Rights Watch]] reported extensive use of [[cluster munition]]s by Syria and Russia, in violation of United Nations resolution 2139 of February 22, 2014, which demanded that all parties end "indiscriminate employment of weapons in populated areas". Human Rights Watch said that "Russian or Syrian forces were responsible for the attacks" and that the munitions were "manufactured in the former Soviet Union or Russia" and that some were of a type that had "not been documented as used in Syria" prior to Russia's involvement in the war, which they claimed, suggested that "either Russian aircraft dropped them or Russian authorities recently provided the Syrian government with more cluster munitions, or both".<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/20/russia/syria-extensive-recent-use-cluster-munitions |title=Russia/Syria: Extensive Recent Use of Cluster Munitions &#124; Human Rights Watch |website=Hrw.org |date= |accessdate=2016-02-28}}</ref> At the same time Human Rights Watch admitted that neither Russia nor Syria are parties to the Cluster Munitions Convention and urged them to join the treaty<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/20/russia/syria-extensive-recent-use-cluster-munitions |title=Russia/Syria: Extensive Recent Use of Cluster Munitions &#124; Human Rights Watch |website=Hrw.org |date= |accessdate=2016-02-28}}</ref><eod>