On the night of September 17, Damascus witnessed something it had not seen in fifteen years. Assala Nasri, the Syrian-born superstar who had lived in exile since she bravely threw her support ...

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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 ...

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 ...