Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Photo: Reuters).
According to Reuters , French judges on November 15 issued arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two other senior Syrian officials on charges related to the use of chemical weapons against civilians in the country.
This is the first international arrest warrant issued against President Assad.
The arrest warrant was issued following a French criminal investigation into the chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian towns of Douma and Eastern Ghouta in August 2013, which killed more than 1,000 people.
The Syrian President's office and Foreign Ministry have not yet commented on the information.
Syrian officials have denied using chemical weapons, but a previous investigation by the United Nations and the Organization for the Proliferation of Chemical Weapons accused the Syrian army of using nerve agents in an attack in April 2017.
In October, French judges issued arrest warrants for two former Syrian defense ministers in connection with a 2017 bombing that killed a French-Syrian citizen.
The Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, influenced by the Arab Spring movement aimed at overthrowing Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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