Syria’s Dirty Dozen is Action on Armed Violence’s profile of twelve of the worst explosive weapons in use in Syria, all of which affect a wide area whenever they are used. These are weapons that produce huge blasts because of the sheer size of their explosive content; weapons that cannot be or are not delivered accurately; or weapons that are fired in salvoes.

Syria’s Dirty Dozen, is a short film which exposes some of the biggest and most dangerous bombs, shells, and rockets in the country, weapons whose wide-area effect are tearing apart the lives of so many civilians.

Many of the weapons in AOAV’s Dirty Dozen are still in production. Some are old, old weapons, made in the heart of the Cold War. But their lifespans are long. They can still crash through the roof or wall of a sleeping family and tear their lives apart.