Syria's air force has used incendiary weapons in dozens of attacks over the last year - including a half-ton bomb which killed 37 people at a school - Human Rights Watch has claimed.
A British emergency doctor, who treated patients from the Aleppo school attack on August 26, told HRW that most of them were covered in burns.
One victim, who later died, arrived with what she described as 90% third degree burns.
Dr Saleyha Ahsan said: "The clothes had been burned off him. It was the most horrific injury I have ever seen in a live patient. Only his eyes moved."
Incendiary weapons can contain any number of flammable substances, including napalm, thermite, or white phosphorus.
Researcher at the organisation Bonnie Docherty said: "Syria has used incendiary weapons to inflict terrible harm on civilians, including many children."
The organisation called for the weapons to be condemned internationally and for tighter international laws restricting deployment.
HRW said that since last November, when it documented one of the first cases of incendiary bomb use in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syrian jets and helicopters had dropped incendiary bombs at least 56 times. All of the weapons were made in the Soviet Union, it said.
President Bashar al Assad's forces have used cluster bombs and vacuum bombs and are accused by the West of firing rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin into districts outside Damascus in August, killing hundreds.
More than 100 countries - but not Syria - have signed up to an international convention banning their use in areas with "concentrations of civilians".
But loopholes and inconsistencies limit its effectiveness, HRW said.
The findings come as government officials and rebels reached a deal to ease a weeks-long blockade on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital on Sunday, allowing food to reach civilians there for the first time in weeks, activists said.
The truce is the latest to be observed by the Assad regime and rebels, who have been at war for two and a half years.
The crisis started with peaceful protests but escalated into armed conflict after his forces shot at demonstrators demanding change.
The scale of the violence on both sides has steadily escalated, with the authorities resorting to tanks and artillery, then helicopters, fighter jets and surface-to-surface missiles to strike at their opponents.
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