Lebanon detains Assad-era general and weighs his handover to Syria over alleged crimes

If Maj. Gen. Adel Issa is sent to his home country, it will be the first time Beirut has handed back an Assad-era official. Since the ouster, dozens of members of Assad’s security agencies blamed for atrocities have been arrested and put on trial in Syria.

Judicial and security sources say a routine embassy visit landed a wanted former Syrian general in a Beirut jail cell.

Lebanon has detained former Syrian army commander Maj. Gen. Adel Issa and is considering extraditing him to Syria over alleged crimes under Assad’s rule

Lebanese authorities have detained a former senior Syrian military officer who commanded an army division under ousted President Bashar Assad