Overview

• The Damascus court’s seventh investigative division signed the warrant on 25 September 2025, with investigating judge Taufik al‑Ali named in reports.
• Allegations include intentional murder of two or more persons, incitement to civil war, and torture resulting in death under Criminal Code articles 535, 533, 534 and 298 plus the 2022 anti‑torture law.
• The order instructs law‑enforcement to arrest Bashar al‑Assad wherever he is found and deliver him into custody.
• The case stems from complaints by families tied to incidents in Daraa on 23 November 2011 during the suppression of the uprising.
• Assad has been in Russia since his regime fell in December 2024, with enforcement complicated by reported asylum, a prior Russian refusal to extradite, potential Interpol circulation of the warrant, and parallel French arrest orders over a 2012 Homs strike.