A month and a half after the fall of his regime, two French judges issued an arrest warrant on Monday for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accusing him of complicity in war crimes.

The warrant was issued in his capacity as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces" and therefore responsible for the crimes committed in the country.

This is the second arrest warrant issued by French judges from the Crimes Against Humanity Division of the Paris Judicial Court against Assad, with the previous warrant issued in June last year.

Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled to Russia, where they were granted humanitarian asylum after armed opposition forces took over Syrian provinces one by one, seized the capital Damascus, and toppled the regime.

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously mentioned plans to meet with Assad, but no meeting has yet been announced as Moscow continues to communicate with the new Syrian administration.

Since the fall of Assad's regime on December 8th, the Operations Directorate (Syrian armed opposition factions) has released detainees in the country. However, the fate of thousands of missing persons remains unknown.

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 112,414 people in Syria are still forcibly disappeared.

Meanwhile, since the fall of Assad on December 8th, nine mass graves have been discovered, containing the remains of 1,475 victims, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.