The ICC, which has 125 member states ... Khan’s visit comes after a trip to Damascus last month by the UN organisation assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria.

The lawyers urged swift action. “We call upon the ICC prosecutor from Damascus to urgently issue arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and senior officials based on the existing case files.” ...

Read more‘Nobody was spared’: Damascus suburbs still haunted by Assad ... Syria is not a member of the ICC, which has left the court without the ability to investigate the war.

The Hague-based ICC, which investigates war crimes, had been unable to investigate Syria because Damascus never ratified the Rome Statute, the tribunal's founding treaty. With Assad gone ...

Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court Karim Khan met Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday, state media reported, as last month's ouster of Bashar al-Assad sparks hopes for ...