Syria Faces Dilemma in Prosecuting Assad-Era War Criminals ^19.5%

Foreign Policy - By Deborah Amos - 6/19/2026, 12:00 PM

Negativity Bias 28.2% - Appeal to Authority 21.9% - Appeal to Emotion 17.3%

When Syrian authorities recently captured Amjad Youssef, also known as the “Butcher of Tadamon,” residents of the Damascus suburb celebrated in the streets. Few could doubt his complicity in war crimes because at least some of his horrors were captured on video. In several gruesome sequences, shot by the perpetrators in 2013, Youssef and... more