#Assad Regime

Virginia US District Court Ruling Marks Justice for Majd Kamalmaz
A US District Court judge in Washington entered a default judgment against the former Assad regime, holding it responsible for the 2017…

Berlin Trial Latest in Syria War Crimes Procedures
A Syrian man identified by German authorities as Anwar S. went on trial in Berlin March 27, facing accusations of murder and crimes against…

Virginia Trial of ‘Assad’s Cousin’ Links Regime to Narco-Terrorism
A federal court case in the Eastern District of Virginia potentially establishes one of the clearest judicial links between figures tied to…

Los Angeles Jury Convicts Assad Regime Officer in Torture Case
A US federal jury in Los Angeles convicted former Assad regime officer Samir Othman al-Sheikh on charges tied to torture and immigration…

War Crimes Trial for Assad-Era General Begins in Los Angeles
The trial of former Syrian Brig. Gen. Samir Othman al-Sheikh began Monday, March 2, 2026, in federal court in Los Angeles, marking the…

Survivors Reclaim the Memory of the Hama Massacre
On Feb. 2, 1982, the forces of the Hafez al-Assad regime stormed the city of Hama, initiating one of the most brutal massacres in modern…

Never Forgotten: Assad Dynasty’s Failure to Exterminate and Erase Hama
Scenes like this unfolded across Hama in February 1982, during what has become one of the bloodiest massacres in modern Middle Eastern…

OPCW Report Ties Assad Forces to Kafr Zita Attack
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe the Air Force under the…

France Moves to Recover Rifaat al-Assad’s Looted Funds for Syria
In an unprecedented legal and diplomatic step, France has begun concrete procedures to return part of the vast fortune embezzled by Rifaat…

Committee Reports Progress on Detainees’ Children Cases
The Investigation Committee on the Fate of Detainees’ Children and the Forcibly Disappeared in Syria presented the results of its work…

Al Jazeera Leaks Expose Post-Assad Plotting and Old Alliances
Recent leaks broadcast by Al Jazeera shed new light on the behavior of senior figures from Syria’s ousted Assad regime. The recordings…

NYT Exposes Assad Regime’s Systemic War Crimes Cover-Up
A New York Times (NYT) investigation details how Bashar al-Assad’s government orchestrated a systematic effort to conceal evidence of war…