U.N. investigators get another year to probe Syria abuses


GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations gave its investigators another year to gather evidence of war crimes in Syria on Friday, saying they had already found horrifying first-hand accounts of murder, torture and rape.

The U.N. Human Rights Council condemned "gross violations" by Syrian government forces and allied militia, including shelling of populated areas and massacres during the two-year-old conflict.

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