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Waiting for the Butcher of Damascus. Photographer: Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images

Assad Avoids Justice

by Scott Turow | May 17, 2017 | Opinion

The torrent of violence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his operatives have rained down on his own people since 2011 — widespread kidnappings, torture, barrel-bombings and chemical weapons attacks — have led to mournful discussions of the dim...

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A boy runs as he rushes away from a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus. Photo: Reuters

New U.N. Team to Look into Syria War Crimes

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 17, 2017 | Middle East

Geneva- A new body is being set up at the United Nations in Geneva to prepare prosecutions of war crimes committed in Syria, U.N. officials and diplomats said on Thursday. The General Assembly voted to establish the mechanism in December and U.N. Secretary-General...

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People look at a burned vehicle at the site of car bomb attack in a busy square at Baghdad’s sprawling Sadr City district, in Iraq. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

Amnesty International Accuses Iraq’s Mobilization Units of Committing War Crimes

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 6, 2017 | Middle East

Irbil- In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty International accused Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi of committing war crimes and called on examining the role of the Iraqi authorities and foreign countries in helping the group...

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Smoke rises as seen from a governement-held area of Aleppo, Syria December 12, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Syrian Regime, Iraqi Militia Reportedly Killing Aleppo Civilians

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 13, 2016 | Middle East

The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it has received reports of Syria’s pro-regime forces and allied Iraqi militias killing at least 82 civilians in eastern Aleppo in four different neighborhoods in the last few days. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the...

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Syrian Refugee Goes on Trial in Germany for ‘War Crimes’

by Majid AlKhatib and Asharq AlAwsat | Oct 22, 2016 | World

Cologne-A Syrian refugee has gone on trial on charges of working with a terrorist organization and participating in the kidnapping of a U.N. peacekeeper in Damascus in 2013 in what prosecutors call a “war crime”. The 25-year-old, named only as Suliman...