
Fact-finding group for Syrian killings says no one above the law
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Yasser Farhan, spokesperson for the Syrian fact-finding committee tasked with investigating violence and revenge killing targeting the Alawite minority sect along the Syrian coast, holds a press conference in Damascus on March 11, 2025.
A Syrian fact-finding committee investigating sectarian killings during clashes between the army and loyalists of ousted President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that no one was above the law and that it would seek the arrest and prosecution of any perpetrators.

Bystanders pray at 2:46 p.m., March 11, 2025, in Tokyo, as Japan marked the 14th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that devastated the northeastern coast. Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings take AP journalists to the area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the 2011 tsunami, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futaba town, Japan, Feb. 20, 2025. The Unit 3 reactor covered with protective housing at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), is seen in Okuma town, Japan, Feb. 20, 2025. This handout taken on Feb. 28, 2024 and released by TEPCO shows a drone landing during the 'primary containment vessel internal investigation' of Unit 1 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. (TEPCO/AFP)

US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, left, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hold a meeting with Ukrainian officials, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 11, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz meet with Ukrainian officials Andriy Yermak, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and deputy head of the presidential office Pavlo Palisa in Jeddah. (Nike Ching/VOA) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, and others Ukrainian officials hold a meeting in Jeddah in the presence of Saudi officials, on March 11, 2025.

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Royal Palace grounds in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 10, 2025. Deputy Governor of the Holy City of Mecca Prince Saud bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 10, 2025. (Saudi Press Agency/Handout via Reuters)

Police try to detain a protesting exile Tibetan during a protest outside Chinese embassy to mark the 1959 uprising in Tibet against the Chinese rule on this day, in New Delhi, March, 10, 2025. Penpa Tsering, center, president of the Central Tibetan Administration, observes a minute's silence with others as they mark the 66th anniversary of an uprising in Tibetan capital Lhasa, at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala, India, March 10, 2025.