Assad's cousin, is accused of committing human rights abuses, including the torture of children during the regime's crackdown ...

Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...

Syrian security forces arrested Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted Bashar Assad and former political security chief in Syria’s Daraa city, over crimes against civilians, including children ...

Homs, Syria’s third city, is nicknamed the “cradle of the revolution”. It witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the 13-year civil war – the scars of which are chiselled into many ...

Syria Arrests Assad-Era Officer Seen as Responsible ... on protests in the southern city of Daraa, state media said. Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security ...

Authorities said previously that some pro-Assad militias and former government operatives had refused to hand over their weapons in Homs, Syria's third-largest city. On Sunday, an AFP correspondent ...