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The Lifting of Secondary Sanctions under the Caesar Act: A Legal Shift and Its Implications for Financial and Investment Compliance

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany The repeal of secondary sanctions under the Caesar Act in December 2025, enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization...

France Ambitious Attempt to Arrest Bashar al-Assad

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany The pursuit of accountability for mass atrocities committed during the Syrian conflict has faced significant obstacles within the structure...

Transitional Justice in Syria: Between Forced Coexistence and the Necessity of Accountability

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany Based on my experience documenting violations and my work in the field of transitional justice in Syria, I affirm...

Legal and Societal Roles of Media in Syrian Transitional Justice

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany The collapse of authoritarian regimes or the cessation of armed conflicts poses a significant challenge to societies that extends...

Yarmouk Camp Trials between Europe and Syria: A Step Towards Building a Transitional Justice System

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany The ongoing trials in Germany and Sweden concerning war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the siege of Yarmouk...

International Double Standards in Dealing with Repeated Israeli Attacks on Syria

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany The contemporary international legal system is based on a set of fundamental principles that are supposed, in theory, to apply...

The Black Record of Russia in Syria

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany   The tenth anniversary of the Russian military intervention in Syria, which lasted from September 30, 2015, until the fall of...

Isolating Perpetrators and Pursuing Transitional Justice for Victims

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany The collapse of authoritarian regimes poses a significant challenge to societies in their efforts to achieve institutional transformation and justice....

Role of Documentation and Truth-telling as a Preventer of the Conflict Resurgence

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany Preventing the resurgence of conflict in post-war societies like Syria is one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary peacebuilding...

The Human Rights Ground Rules for Normalization of Syria-Russia Relations

Available in: English العربية Fadel Abdulghany Normalization of the relations between Syria and Russia after years of the unlawful Russian military intervention in Syria represents unprecedented...

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