{
  "id": 562929,
  "title": "Who are the nine Assad regime officials sentenced to death in Syria?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/who-are-the-nine-assad-regime-officials-sentenced-to-death-in-syria",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-11T11:06:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National UAE",
    "slug": "the-national-uae",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/08/11/who-are-the-nine-assad-regime-officials-sentenced-to-death-in-syria/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Fifteen years after the first anti-regime protests, a court in Damascus has sentenced former president Bashar Al Assad and eight ex-officials to death. Among those to receive the death penalty is Atef Najib, who previously served as head of the Political Security Branch in Deraa, and Maher Al Assad, the brother of the former president who led army units. Najib was tried in person, with the others…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}