There were highly charged scenes as former senior regime official, Atef Najib, appeared before a Damascus court.

Syria has opened its first public trial of officials linked to former President Bashar Assad. Atef Najib, a former army ...

Sharaa's forces swept into Damascus in December 2024 and ended the rule of Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad's half-century ...

Atef Najib, ex-head of political security in Deraa province, is charged with ‘crimes against the Syrian people’.

A Syrian court held its first hearing on Sunday in the trial of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and senior officials from ...

Formerly sentenced to death, Judge al-Aryan now oversees trial, but transitional justice still far from complete.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia ...

Syria’s interior minister announces the arrest of a senior Assad-era general accused of playing a major role in the 2013 ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad released on Monday his first statement since the fall of his regime, recounting his final hours before evacuation and addressing the unexpected rise of the rebel ...

With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon defeated and increasingly isolated, attention turns to the Houthis in Yemen. Perhaps the strongest remaining Iranian proxy force in ...

Atef Najib was head of the Political Security Branch in southern Syria’s Daraa province under Assad. He faces charges related ...