July 3, 2019 - Human rights lawyers have filed ... Bashar al-Assad at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The lawsuits were submitted on behalf of 28 Syrian refugees in Jordan who say they were forced to flee the country. The legal teams are calling on the ICC to investigate possible crimes against humanity ...

March 8, 2019 - Human rights lawyers have today filed the first ever case against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his government at The Hague, after making a “breakthrough” in attempts to hold the regime to account.

March 8, 2019 - Syrian refugees who fled to Jordan ... to prosecute President Bashar al-Assad. Although Syria is not a signatory to the court, based in The Hague, lawyers in London are relying on a precedent set by the ICC in extending jurisdiction to the crime of forcible population ...

August 31, 2018 - The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has consistently questioned the authenticity of the photographs, and when confronted with one of the horrific images by reporter Michael Isikoff in a Yahoo News interview last year, the president referred to them as “fake news”, and asked: “Who verified the pictures?” · New evidence suggests his own regime verified the pictures. War crimes ...

May 23, 2019 - Some 128,000 people are thought to have been murdered in Syrian jails at the hands of the Assad regime. Thousands were tortured to death. Now, Europe is leading the charge to bring the perpetrators to justice.

September 6, 2022 - For more than eleven years there ... as Bashar al-Assad and his Syrian regime have committed the worst atrocities of the twenty-first century, but mounting documentary evidence of Assad’s deliberate policy of mass murder and torture may change that. Recent European prosecutions have brought to light specific war crimes by the Assad ...

March 31, 2022 - On 15 November, French judges issued international arrest warrants for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and two other senior officials on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes over the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians ...

3 hours ago - The UN High Commissioner for Human ... in war crimes, and he faced international investigations and condemnation for his actions. In November 2024, a coalition of Syrian rebels mounted several offensives against the country with the intention of ousting Assad. On the morning of 8 December, as rebel troops first entered Damascus, Assad fled to Moscow and was granted political asylum by the Russian government. Later that day, Damascus fell to rebel forces, and Assad's regime collapsed. Bashar al-Assad was ...

September 24, 2014 - Despite all these examples of brutality, the US didn't intervene. So why is it stepping in now?

June 4, 2017 - Tuesday’s chemical attack that killed at least 86 people, including 27 children, is the latest in a series of atrocities linked to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The United Nations previously accused his government of committing war crimes against the Syrian people during a ...

September 24, 2014 - Despite all these examples of brutality, the US didn't intervene. So why is it stepping in now?

August 23, 2018 - And, look, we can argue over whether ... over are the unspeakable war crimes committed by Assad against his own people; what we cannot afford to turn a blind eye to is the vile — and violent — nature of his regime. The truth is that Bashar al-Assad is not an anti-imperialist ...

February 23, 2018 - Meanwhile, a top UN official said his office has received thousands of messages from civilians under bombardment in eastern Ghouta, as he stressed for stopping hostilities in the region.

April 8, 2018 - No meaningful American response will be forthcoming, no matter how hideous the war crime. ... A child and a man are seen in hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria February 25, 2018. Picture taken February 25,2018. (REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh) ... Bashar al-Assad, the ...

October 28, 2021 - But the White House hasn’t learned the lessons of last year’s “pinprick” strikes on the Assad regime. Unless some sort of accountability is imposed on the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad’s slaughter of his own people in the cruelest and most illegal of ways is sure to continue apace.

December 16, 2015 - A trove of pictures of atrocious abuse is pronounced genuine

June 24, 2020 - Many figures involved in the means established by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime to brutally suppress the civil war that started in March 2011 have been implicated as war criminals. War crimes committed by the Assad regime, including the use of chemical weapons, rape, torture, the targeting ...

March 3, 2021 - A picture of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in Douma, outside Damascus, in 2018. The government is accused of using chemical weapons in Douma in August 2013.Credit...Marko Djurica/Reuters ... PARIS — Chemical munitions experts have for years compiled information that Syria’s government has used these banned weapons against its own people, a war crime ...