A barrel bomb is an improvised unguided bomb, sometimes described as a flying IED (improvised explosive device). They are typically made from a large barrel -shaped metal container that has been filled with high explosives , possibly shrapnel , oil or chemicals as well, and then dropped from a helicopter or aeroplane. [ 1 ]

Syrian President Bashar Assad has denied that his forces have used so-called "barrel bombs" in the country's bloody civil war. But what is a barrel bomb and why is it such a controversial...

A barrel bomb is a type of improvised explosive device used extensively by the Syrian Air Force during the Syrian civil war. They are usually made from a barrel that has been filled with High Explosives, along with shrapnel and/or oil. In Syria, they are …

2015年2月10日 · Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has denied in a BBC interview that his forces have used barrel bombs indiscriminately in civilian areas. He insists that his air force has only targeted...

2015年2月10日 · Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has denied in a BBC interview that his forces have used barrel bombs indiscriminately in civilian areas. He insists that his air force has only targeted...

2015年2月24日 · The Syrian government has carried out hundreds of new indiscriminate attacks over the past year with air-delivered munitions, including improvised weapons such as barrel bombs.

2017年4月6日 · Barrel bombs that kill and maim indiscriminately. Chemical attacks that suffocate children with their eyes still open. But these are the threats Syrian civilians face every day.

2013年12月20日 · The alleged use of crude barrel bombs against targets in Syria is a measure of the brutality of the conflict, writes BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus.

The Syrian Regime Dropped About 11,000 Barrel Bombs on Daraa Governorate, Killing 1,177 Civilians, Forty Percent of Whom Were Women and Children

Barrel bombs – oil drums, fuel tanks or gas cylinders filled with explosives and metal fragments, plunged from helicopters – have killed more than 11,000 civilians in Syria since 2012. Last month alone, local activists recorded at least 83 barrel bomb attacks in …