Assad on trial Syrians in exile are fighting to hold Bashar al-Assad’s regime to account on an international stage.

In a few months, Syrians the world over will commemorate a grim anniversary. The 15 March will mark ten years since demonstrators marched against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo and Damascus. The date is now generally seen as the beginning of the Syrian Civil War; a conflict which over a decade has dragged in interventions from half a dozen external powers, seen the rise and fall of Islamic State, and the migration of millions out of Syria, mostly to neighbouring Turkey and Lebanon but also to Europe.