Syria: Assad’s armed forces must face accountability, says ... - UN …
6 hours ago · The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria’s latest report follows the lightning operation led by mainly Hayat-Tahrir al-Sham fighters that toppled President Bashar al-Assad last December, ending the 13-year war that decimated the country and destabilised the entire region.. The violence is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians and uprooted 15 million ...
Forging Peace in Syria: Great opportunities, grave risks | UN ... - UN …
Dec 10, 2024 · Following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime on Sunday, Syria has entered a period of profound uncertainty, and the UN will have a vital role in ensuring an orderly transition to renewed,...
Syria: Rights probe reveals systematic torture and detention of Assad …
Jan 27, 2025 · A report from UN human rights investigators for Syria released on Monday has laid bare the systematic use of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances by the deposed Assad regime. The findings from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria detail crimes against ...
Rapes, torture, killings -- a litany of abuses blamed on Assad forces
Dec 12, 2024 · Bashar al-Assad's government has been accused of carrying out torture, rape, summary executions and other abuses since since Syria's civil war started in 2011.
The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime has created a historic ...
Jan 8, 2025 · The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has created a historic opportunity to rebuild a Syria that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people. Syrians have many legitimate expectations: reconstruction and reconciliation, justice for the thousands of victims of the regime, and the prospect of a return to Syria for those forced into exile.
UN investigators say 4,000 Syrian rights abusers identified
Dec 12, 2024 · UN investigators say they have compiled secret lists of 4,000 perpetrators of serious crimes in Syria and hope the fall of Bashar al-Assad will help ensure accountability up to the highest level.
UN organization says Syria’s new authorities ‘very receptive’ to ...
Dec 24, 2024 · Since the rebel overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and the rebel opening of prisons and detention facilities there have been rising demands from Syrians for the prosecution of...
Historic opportunity to end decades of human rights violations in …
Dec 8, 2024 · Under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, and before him his father Hafez al-Assad, Syrians have been subjected to a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a vast scale.
UN calls for 'free and fair elections' in Syria following Assad's fall
Dec 18, 2024 · Evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run “machinery of death” under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, said Stephen Rapp, a former US ambassador-at-large for war...
UN chief says Syria's Assad agrees to expand UN aid access from …
Feb 13, 2023 · Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to allow United Nations aid deliveries to opposition-held northwest Syria through two border crossings from Turkey for three months, UN Secretary...