France’s international arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad for complicity in crimes against humanity marks a historic first. What does it mean in practice, and what are its implications for seemingly unstoppable regional normalization?
Nine years after a chemical weapons attack killed and injured nearly 12,000 people in the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, survivors, witnesses and family members are still fighting for justice, writes Mohamad Katoub.
France is the second European country requested to investigate and prosecute those responsible for chemical attacks carried out by the Assad regime against the Syrian people in 2013.
