War crimes evidence in Syria solid enough for indictment - U.N.

A Syrian refugee girl shout slogans as she holds pictures of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) and Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a celebration of Syrian forces taking control of the Syrian border town of Yabroud, at Marj al-Khokh refugee camp near Marjayoun village, southern Lebanon March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators said on Tuesday they had expanded their list of suspected war criminals from both sides in Syria's civil war and the evidence was solid enough to prepare any indictment.

The U.N. inquiry has identified individuals, military units and security agencies as well as insurgent groups suspected of committing abuses such as torture and bombing civilian areas, it said in its report to the United Nations Human Rights Council.