(AFP) A Syrian man went on trial in Germany Tuesday accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for Hezbollah on the side of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The defendant, identified by the court in Stuttgart only as 32-year-old Ammar A., faces charges including killings and torture.
He was allegedly a leader of a Shiite Muslim militia, which joined with Lebanon-based Hezbollah fighting on the side of the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war.
The defendant is accused of participating in attacks on Sunni Muslims in the regime-controlled southern town of Busra al-Sham in 2012.
