On Tuesday (Aug 11), a Damascus court sentenced former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for premeditated killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and crimes against humanity committed ...

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

The court also sentenced Assad-era official Atif Najib to death for "crimes against humanity" committed when he was head of political security in Daraa province, the cradle of the country's 2011 ...

India, Aug. 11 -- Bashar al-Assad Death Sentence: For years, the Syrian civil war left families searching for missing relatives, communities buried under the destruction of fighting and victims ...

Bashar al-Assad has been handed a death sentence by a Syrian court that no longer answers to him. The Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus convicted the former president in absentia of crimes against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bashar al-Assad, left, and Atef Najib [File: AFP and Getty Images] Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher ...

Aug. 11 (UPI) --A court in Damascus on Tuesday sentenced the exiled former dictator Bashar al-Assad and eight ex-officials to death after finding them guilty of premeditated murder, torture, arbitrary ...

A Syrian court handed death sentences to Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher — both in absentia — alongside their cousin Atef Najib, who attended the trial in a cage and was found guilty of leading ...

Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death in Syria. But the man now at the centre of the country's attempt to reckon with the former regime is not in a Syrian courtroom, he is in Moscow, under ...