A World Turned Upside Down: Syria Reckons with an Assad-Era Peacemaker As Syria struggles to pursue transitional justice, a former commander faces false accusations of war crimes. The fall of the Syrian government to a coalition of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in December 2024 put an end to several decades of rule by the Assad family, as well as a fourteen-year civil war estimated to h...