Desperate journeys: Syrian refugees fleeing Israel’s assault on Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon

Desperate journeys: Syrian refugees fleeing Israel’s assault on Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon

Al-Bara, Syria – Musa Baghdadi paid $6,000 for the privilege of exchanging one bombardment for another. “I paid to escape the shelling in Lebanon to reach my village, which is also under bombardment by Assad’s army,” he tells Al Jazeera at his modest, one-storey home in al-Bara, western Idlib. The…

French court upholds arrest warrant for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad | Syria’s War News

French court upholds arrest warrant for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad | Syria’s War News

Counterterrorism prosecutors failed to have warrant annulled on grounds that al-Assad enjoys immunity as head of state. A Paris appeals court has upheld the validity of an arrest warrant issued for the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad over alleged complicity in war crimes committed during the country’s civil war, according to…