The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous ...

Syria arrests Assad-era officer credited with triggering 2011 uprising Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security Department in Daraa, was arrested by General ...

Najib was the head of political security in Daraa in southern Syria, under Assad’s regime. Syria’s nationwide uprising was sparked by the arrest and torture of children in Daraa, whom ...

Syria’s new leadership announced on Friday the arrest of Atif Najib, a cousin of ousted leader Bashar Al-Assad, who is accused of leading a deadly crackdown in Daraa, the birthplace of 2011 ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad seen by some as responsible for sparking the country's 2011 ...

Women smoke a water pipe as they look out over the city at Mount Qasioun, Damascus, Syria, Dec. 21, 2024 (AP photo by Leo Correa). BEIRUT, Lebanon—Amal, a 19-year-old from Daraa, in southwestern ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

The 2011 arrest and torture of a group of Syrian boys in Daraa, where Najib was security chief, sparked protests and eventually ignited a nationwide uprising that was met with a brutal crackdown ...

a cousin of ousted Bashar Assad and former political security chief in Syria’s Daraa city, over crimes against civilians, including children, according to the state news agency SANA on Friday.