Lebanon has handed Syria a former general who served under the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, in the first extradition of its kind since his government fell. Maj Gen Adel Issa, 67, is accused of a raft of crimes allegedly committed during the Syrian civil war, which ended in December 2024 when rebel forces took
An American man already serving 25 years in prison for attempting to kill Sir Salman Rushdie has been found guilty of additional charges, including providing material support to a terrorist group. Hadi Matar was convicted Wednesday in federal court in New York of providing assistance to Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed faction designated as a terrorist
NEW YORK — A Harvard-educated former managing director of Citigroup Inc. who blamed autism for his actions was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for sex crimes that prosecutors say occurred over a 10-year period. Edward Gene Smith, 50, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Paul A. Engelmayer after he pleaded guilty
A Sudanese court has sentenced paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for atrocities committed in the West Darfur region. The court of Port Sudan, a city under the rule of the army, Dagalo, known as Hemedti, was sentenced in absentia, along with
The ICC has been investigating allegations of war crimes in Darfur for more than 20 years, since the previous round of violence in the 2000s. “What we see are patterns of crime that, in fact, were the same patterns of crime 20 years ago, when the Security Council first referred this situation to us,” he