What Bashar al-Assad's sentencing means

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Aug 13, 202600:05:54News & Politics

Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad and his brother, Maher al-Assad have been sentenced to death in absentia by a Damascus court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while their cousin Atef Najib faced trial...

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