Syria's judiciary has charged Atef Najib with acts "amounting to war crimes" as Bashar Assad's cousin is accused of orchestrating a crackdown on 2011 protests that subsequently degenerated into a ...

One of the defining characteristics of the Arab Spring is that the heavy protests typically staged after Friday prayers have names. In March, for example, Yemeni protesters countered President Ali ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIRUT (AP) — Anti-government protests in ...

Atef Najib, a former Syrian security official who played a key role in the crackdown on early protests in Daraa, has been sentenced to death by a Syrian court. Najib was convicted of crimes including ...

The Syrian star, one of the Arab world’s most famous artists, had been in self-exile since 2011 after she openly supported ...