Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels U.S.-led intervention against ISIL The Maarrat al-Numan market bombing or Maarrat al-Numan market massacre was a war crime through an aerial bombardment of a marketplace and the surrounding houses in the Syrian opposition-held town of Ma'arrat al-Numan in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.

[1] Later analysis confirmed that the bombing was perpetrated by a fighter aircraft of the Russian Federation.

[5][6] The attack caused even more fatalities when a "double tap" strategy was used, in which a second wave of bombing hit the same target when rescue workers were on the site minutes later, killing them.

The United Nations Human Rights Council recorded the crime in its report published on 2 March 2020.

As such, there are reasonable grounds to believe that pro-government forces intended to terrorize civilians, in an effort to depopulate the zone and accelerate its capture.