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An alleged former member of a Syrian pro-government militia has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity related to the abuse and torture of civilians in the early years of his country’s civil war, prosecutors said Thursday. The man, identified only as Ahmad H. in line with...

A UN-backed human rights advocate says hundreds of boys—some as young as 11—held in detention camps run by US-backed, Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria have been wrongly separated from their mothers on the “unproven” belief that they pose a security risk. Fionnuala Ni Aolain, an independent...

In the early years of Syria’s brutal conflict, top government officials established and directed paramilitary groups known as “shabbiha” to help the state crack down on opponents, war crimes investigators say. In a report, the Commission for International Justice and Accountability published seven...

The UN General Assembly is to vote this week on setting up an independent institution on missing persons in Syria. At the height of the civil war in Syria, Ahmad Helmi, an activist and human rights defender, became one of the many victims of “enforced disappearance.” Currently, more than 12 years...

The UN has expressed deep concern about an escalation of hostilities in north-western Syria after at least 11 people were reportedly killed in Russian air strikes on rebel-held Idlib province. Nine were killed when warplanes dropped bombs next to a market outside Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, rescuers...

The Netherlands and Belgium have joined an international investigation into atrocities committed against the Yazidi minority in Syria and Iraq, the European Union’s judicial cooperation agency said Monday. The Joint Investigation Team was established by France and Sweden in October 2021 and...

A German court has jailed a woman for more than nine years for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of ISIL (ISIS). The 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as Nadine K, was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership...

The Netherlands and Canada have submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of torture. Their application accuses the Syrian government of committing "countless violations of international law" since the country's civil war began in 2011. "Syrian...

El presidente ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, acusó este viernes a algunos líderes árabes de ignorar los horrores de la invasión rusa en Ucrania, durante un discurso en una cumbre de la Liga Árabe en Arabia Saudita. “Desafortunadamente, hay algunos en el mundo y aquí, entre ustedes, que cierran los...

Syria has been invited to attend the next meeting of regional cooperation organization the Arab League, to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 19. The invitation was issued by the Saudi government, which had long been opposed to normalizing relations with Syria's Bashar Assad regime and had even...