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Syria court don sentence Wassim al-Assad, wey be cousin of former President Bashar al-Assad, to death over war crimes and crimes against humanity. Di sentence come on Tuesday, one week after Bashar and im brother Maher also receive death sentence for absentia. Wassim, wey be 46 years old and born…

Home Middle East As it happened Middle East Issued on: 19/08/2026 - 05:05 Modified: 19/08/2026 - 23:24 1 min Reading time A file photo showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben-Gvir shaking hands in the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 19, 2025. © Oren Ben Hakoon, Reuters France and…

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AFP 18 Aug, 2026 06:11 PM 3 mins to read The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said its inspectors had found several tons of nuclear material in Syria, at a site which the authorities said they reported to the agency in July 2026. Photo / SANA, AFP The head…

Israel has carried out eight airstrikes on a Syrian military airbase in the northwest, damaging its runway and storage facilities, according to Syrian state media. The attack drew condemnation from Damascus and Ankara and criticism from a US envoy who called it an “unnecessary escalation.” The strikes hit the Abu…

U.S. Ambassador Tom Barrack on Tuesday condemned airstrikes that the Israeli military allegedly carried out on a military airport in northern Syria overnight, amid reports that the strikes could be connected to the growing Turkish presence in the area. In an unusual statement published before any Israeli official had commented…

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Eight Israeli airstrikes hit an airbase in northwestern Syria early on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, in what the US envoy for the region called an “unnecessary escalation”. Syria’s state-run Ekhbariya, citing a military source, said the attack struck the runway and storage facilities at the Abu al-Duhur base...Read More

Ambassador Tom Barrack said the US remained deeply concerned by the strikes on Abu Duhur airbase...Read More

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. Irony in its purest form. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan defected from the Ministry of Justice in 2013 joining the judicial bodies of the…