France Issues Arrest Warrants for Senior Syrian Officials

France Issues Arrest Warrants for Senior Syrian Officials
Clémence Bectarte, lawyer of the two French-Syrian disappeared in Syria, flanked by their brother Obeida Dabbagh arrive at the Financial courthouse in Paris, on Oct. 24, 2016. Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
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PARIS—French prosecutors have issued international arrest warrants for three senior Syrian intelligence and government officials, including security chief Ali Mamlouk, for alleged collusion in war crimes, lawyers and a judicial source said on Nov. 5.

Mamlouk, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s most senior advisers, was targeted by the order alongside Jamil Hassan, the head of Airforce Intelligence who is already the subject of a German warrant, the sources said.