Lebanon extradites former Syrian general to Damascus on murder, torture charges

Issa is accused of torture leading to death and crimes aimed at inciting civil war and sectarian strife under the previous Syrian regime.

Twenty months after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government, the machinery of accountability has reached across Lebanon's border. Major-General Adel Issa, a 67-year-old former commander who fled to Beirut when the regime fell, was recognized at his own country's embassy and handed back to Damascus — the first such extradition since Syria's political order was remade. His transfer is both a legal proceeding and a signal: that the new Syrian government intends to pursue those who served the old one, and that Lebanon, fragile as it is, has begun to answer that call.

Lebanon extradites former Syrian general to Damascus on murder, torture charges

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