Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara, centre left, discusses strengthening judicial and legal co-operation with chief of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council Faiq Zaidan, centre right, in Damascus. Sana

Syria and Iraq agree to form judicial committees to review ISIS prisoner cases

About 5,700 detainees transferred from Syrian prisons

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InterviewLebanon and Syria push economic reset with Damascus investment conference planned

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CommentThe death sentence against Bashar Al Assad is a bittersweet pill for Syrians to swallow

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Assad has been sentenced - but 3,500 former regime figures remain at large

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Syria submits protest letter to UN over Colombia's announcement

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Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Kurdistan officials meet to discuss border threats

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Exclusive'I fainted with every electric shock': Syrian dissident tells of torture at hands of condemned Assad cousin

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Today's cartoonShadi's take on a death sentence for Syria's former president

Our cartoonist's take on a Damascus court sentencing the former Syrian president to death

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New York first lady Rama Duwaji 'set to visit Lebanon and Syria'

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IAEA to visit Syria over nuclear material left by Assad regime

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Who are the nine Assad regime officials sentenced to death in Syria?

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Damascus court sentences Bashar Al Assad and eight others to death

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AnalysisSyria and Russia save face with deal on military bases

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Violence mars return of displaced Syrian Kurds to border town after nearly seven years

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Syria has sentenced Bashar Al Assad to death in absentia for mass murder
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Damascus court sentences Bashar Al Assad and eight others to death

Court orders former Syrian president and his brother Maher Al Assad to be pursued internationally

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AnalysisSyria and Russia save face with deal on military bases

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Violence mars return of displaced Syrian Kurds to border town after nearly seven years

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Syria and Russia agree to transform military bases into joint training centres

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