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Former Assad army brigadier arrested for moving chemical weapons out of Syria in 2015

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The accountability department of Syria's National Commission for Transitional Justice announced the arrest of Mohammad Hassan al-Sharif, a former brigadier general in the old regime's army. He is suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Syria's National Commission for Transitional Justice was set up to examine serious crimes committed during the country's civil war, which began in 2011 and involved many armed groups and government forces.

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