Syria: Court charges Bashar Assad's cousin Atef Najib with war crimes amid 2011 uprising
Syria's judiciary has charged Atef Najib with acts "amounting to war crimes" as Bashar Assad's cousin is accused of orchestrating a crackdown on 2011 protests that subsequently degenerated into a decade of civil war.
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