August 11, 2026 - The court said Bashar al-Assad had been sentenced to death for crimes of “premeditated and intentional murder of more than one person and of children” as well as “torture, arbitrary arrest and crimes against humanity”.

2 days ago - The Federal Bureau of Investigation ... potentially leaving Assad open to prosecution by individual European countries for war crimes. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated in December 2013 that UN investigations directly implicated Bashar al-Assad in perpetrating ...

August 20, 2025 - HomeStatementsSummary of the Assad Regime’s Crimes Against the Syrian People Over the... ... The Hague – the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) released a statement briefly summarizing the staggering human and material losses inflicted by Bashar Assad’s regime on the Syrian society and the Syrian state in the last 14 years.

2 weeks ago - Brutal repression, human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Assad government throughout the course of the conflict led to international condemnation and widespread calls to convict Bashar al-Assad in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country's civil war. It is the first conviction against Assad, who fled from Damascus to the Russian capital, Moscow, with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his family's five-decade grip on power. Assad's cousin and the former head of political security in southern Syria's Deraa province, Atef Najib, was also sentenced to death. He appeared wearing a striped prison uniform inside a cage in the courtroom as the judge read out his sentence. Deraa is widely seen as the birthplace of the uprising against Assad's rule. In March 2011, the detention and alleged torture of a group of teenagers accused of writing anti-government graffiti sparked protests in the city, which were met with a violent crackdown by security forces.

December 20, 2024 - In stark contrast to the compassion and integrity expected of a physician, Assad's rhetoric often dehumanised opposition forces, likening them to pathogens to be eradicated. Invoking the language of medicine while systematically violating every ethical directive it stands for, he ultimately showed the ease with which professional values can be subverted. Bashar al-Assad's legacy stands as a cautionary tale: medical training and scientific acumen might not guarantee moral conduct.

The Syrian government led by president Bashar al-Assad is responsible for systematic and widespread torture targeting opponents and activists not only as a reaction to the protests in 2011. There are currently only a few avenues left to prosecute international crimes committed in Syria.

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia today for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict

August 11, 2026 - Former Syrian president Bashar al Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes, following a ruling by a court in the country.

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court has sentenced ex-president Bashar al-Assad and his younger brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes, which left around half a million people dead

August 11, 2026 - At a court in Damascus, Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan convicted Assad for crimes including "premeditated murder, the intentional killing of more than one person, the intentional killing of children under 15 years ...

The investigation report, Violations of the Law of Armed Conflict by the Syrian Armed Forces in Connection with Military Operations in Homs, October 2011-March 2012, illustrates how Bashar al-Assad and his senior regime officers micromanaged their forces’ systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity in Homs.

December 13, 2024 - Torture, executions, chemical attacks on civilians, ethnic cleansing, bombing of residential areas, using famine as a weapon of war... The litany of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Bashar al-Assad's regime appers to be endless.

For nearly 14 years, the Syrian regime committed crimes against humanity and war crimes, killing hundreds of thousands, displacing millions, and detaining an estimated 100,000 people.

December 9, 2024 - Amnesty International’s 2017 report “Human Slaughterhouse” revealed how Syrian authorities under President Bashar al-Assad had carried out killings, torture, enforced disappearance, mass hangings and extermination of detainees – in the ...

August 20, 2026 - Lebanon has handed Syria a former general who served under the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, in the first extradition of its kind since his government fell. Maj Gen Adel Issa, 67, is accused of a raft of crimes allegedly committed during the Syrian civil war, which ended in December 2024 when rebel forces took the capital, Damascus, and Assad fled. Issa was detained on 8 August after visiting the Syrian embassy in Beirut to complete paperwork and was transferred into Syrian custody on Wednesday. The handover follows pressure from Syria's new authorities on Lebanon to act against former security and military officials who fled across the border after Assad's fall. The Syrian interior ministry said Issa led ground forces in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor until 2016. He is accused of charges including murder as well as "torture leading to death and crimes of aggression with the aim of inciting civil war and sectarian fighting", it said.