Alaa Mousa, accused of crimes against humanity under former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime, arrives at a court in Frankfurt on June 16, 2025 [Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP] A German court has ...

A German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad during the country's brutal civil war. The higher regional court in Frankfurt ...

FRANKFURT — Who would have thought that the road to justice in Syria would begin in Frankfurt? And that we might watch as the executioner — who’d been convinced that coming to Germany as a refugee was ...

Syrian doctor Alaa Mousa arrives at a German court in Frankfurt, before being handed a life sentence for crimes against humanity for torturing detainees at military hospitals under former ruler Bashar ...

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent. The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court ...