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Syria’s ousted President Bashar al-Assad. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison under ousted President Bashar al-Assad and was convicted of torture by a U.S. federal jury has been sentenced to 60 years in prison by a U.S. judge, federal prosecutors said. Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74,…
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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. | Photo Credit: Reuters Bashar al-Assad, who ruled Syria for more than two decades before being forced to flee amid a civil war in 2024 and ending the Assad-era after five decades, has been sentenced to death along with his brother Maher al-Assad, who commanded the notorious ‘fourth division’ of the…
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Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A Syrian court sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday (August 11, 2026) after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest during the country’s nearly 14-year war. It was the first conviction against Assad, who was…
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Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December 2024. File. | Photo Credit: AP Syria on Wednesday (March 18, 2026) launched a plan supported by Washington to rid the West Asian country of legacy chemical weapons that were used against its people by forces under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. For decades, Assad ran a large-scale program for…
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Syria expects to finalise security and military agreements with Israel this year, an official said on Thursday (September 18, 2025), in what would be a breakthrough less than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. With the United States pushing for a settlement between the two neighbours, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in Washington to discuss…
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In a desolate area of Syria where Lebanese militant group Hezbollah once held sway, security forces shot open the gates to an abandoned building and found a defunct drug factory. Syria’s new authorities launched a security campaign last week around Qusayr at the porous Lebanese border, cracking down on drug and weapons smugglers. They have…
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Damascus: Syria’s new authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, accused of orchestrating a crackdown in Daraa, where the 2011 uprising began. Atif Najib, the former head of political security in Daraa in southern Syria, was arrested in Latakia, on the country’s west coast, the official SANA news…
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US said Islamic State is hoping to stage a comeback in Syria following fall of Assad regime. Washington: The U.S. military said on Monday operations against Islamic State in Iraq over the past week led to the death of a non-U.S. coalition soldier and wounded two other non-U.S. personnel. It also detailed operations in Syria…
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New Delhi: Businessman Kamel Amin Thaabet arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus in 1962. He threw lavish parties, became part of the city’s social elite and quickly gained access to the country’s most powerful men. Three years later, he was publicly executed in central Damascus’ Marjeh Square. Why? Because Kamel Thaabet was Eli Cohen,…
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Asma al-Assad, wife of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is reportedly battling leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and blood, and has a 50-50 chance of survival. The British-born former first lady has been isolated to minimize the risk of infection and is undergoing treatment, reported The Telegraph. According to the report, Asma…
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