UN war crimes team will not investigate foreign air strikes in Syria
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NEW YORK - A United Nations team of war crimes investigators will not probe air strikes by foreign countries in Syria, its chairman said on Wednesday, despite concerns that some attacks by foreign militaries could have violated the laws of war.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria is not intended to investigate air strikes in Syria by foreign nations, Chairman Paulo Pinheiro said.
"It is not our mandate to investigate the behavior of powers involved in the crisis of Syria," Pinheiro told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
It would not probe potential cases of violations of international human rights law involving nations conducting military strikes in Syria, he said.
"There is no possibility that we will investigate the American air strikes or French or British or Russian," he said.
