play Live Sign upShow navigation menuplay Live Click here to searchsearchSign upBREAKINGBREAKING, NewsBashar al-Assad, Atef Najib sentenced to death in landmark Syria trialSave
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoAtef Najib, former head of the Political Security Branch in the Daraa area during Bashar al-Assad's rule, sits in the defendants' cage during a trial session at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April 26, 2026. [File: Ghaith Alsayed/AP]Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad and Atef Najib, the former head of political security in southern Syria’s Deraa province, have been sentenced to death.
