Well done Erdogan .. "unfortunate" for sure .. thank you, a very interesting one .. hope seeing these doesn't upset you tooo much .. it's just as it is in the tragedy of Syria ..
Photo 1 / 43 - Members of the Free Syrian Army are seen at a front line in al-Mid area in Aleppo city in northern Syria, October 11, 2012. - REUTERS/Zain Karam
Photo 5 / 43 - A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Amereya district, October 1, 2012. - REUTERS/Zain Karam
.. the devastation and suffering is friggin' soul destroying ..
Photo 9 / 43 - A view of a damaged room after being hit by a mortar shell in Aleppo's district of Bustan Al-Basha September 26, 2012. - REUTERS/Zain Karam
Photo 18 / 43 - Free Syrian Army fighters drag a dead man out of the line of sniper fire after he was shot at Seif a Dawla district in Syria's northwestern city of Aleppo September 4, 2012. - REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Photo 21 / 43 - A Syrian Air Force fighter jet launches missiles at El Edaa district in Syria's northwestern city of Aleppo September 1, 2012. - REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
Photo 24 / 43 - A member of the Free Syrian Army looks up at a jet at Aleppo's Al-Shaar district September 9, 2012. - REUTERS/Zain Karam
Photo 30 / 43 - A man reacts in front of houses destroyed during a recent Syrian Air Force air strike in Azaz, some 47 km (29 miles) north of Aleppo, August 15, 2012. - REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Photo 34 / 43 - A man and woman cry over the body of their son in Aleppo August 12, 2012. The son was shot by a sniper in the Salaheddine district of Aleppo where fighting has raged for almost two weeks. - REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Photo 43 / 43 - A Free Syrian Army fighter reacts after his friend was shot by Syrian Army soldiers during clashes in Salah al-Din neighbourhood in central Aleppo August 4, 2012. - REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Fierce fighting has continued between the Syrian army and rebel fighters in the north-western town of Maarat al-Nuaman for control of a highway linking the capital Damascus to the second city, Aleppo.
Rebels captured the strategic town on Tuesday, hindering the army's ability to reinforce troops in Aleppo.
Syrian government forces are still holding two nearby bases, Wadi Daif and Hamdiyeh.
'Disregard'
HRW said many of the latest cluster bomb attacks had taken place on towns around the highway which runs through Maarat al-Nuaman.
Cluster bomb canisters and sub-munitions shown in online videos showed "damage and wear patterns produced by being mounted on and dropped from an aircraft", according to the watchdog.
It identified them as Russian-made RBK-250 series cluster bomb canisters with AO-1SCh fragmentation bomblets.
"Syria's disregard for its civilian population is all too evident in its air campaign, which now apparently includes dropping these deadly cluster bombs into populated areas," said Steve Goose, HRW's arms director.
"Cluster bombs have been comprehensively banned by most nations, and Syria should immediately stop all use of these indiscriminate weapons that continue to kill and maim for years."
The cluster bomb convention .. http://www.clusterconvention.org/ .. was signed in 2008 to ban the stockpiling, use and transfer of virtually all existing cluster bombs, as well as the clearing up of countries littered with unexploded munitions.
States which are not parties to the convention include Syria and Russia, but also the US and Turkey.
The UN says more than 18,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria with 170,000 fleeing the country and 2.5 million in need of aid within the country.
How a cluster bomb works
1. The cluster bomb, in this case a CBU-87, is dropped from a plane and can fly about nine miles before releasing its load of about 200 bomblets.
2. The canister starts to spin and opens at an altitude between 1,000m and 100m, spraying the bomblets across a wide area.
3. Each bomblet is the size of a drink can and contains hundreds of metal pieces. When it explodes, it can cause deadly injuries up to 25m away.