‘Forget 15-Year-Old, Make New Kids’: Who Is Atef Najib, Assad’s Ruthless Cousin Given Death For Igniting Syrian War?
News explainers ‘Forget 15-Year-Old, Make New Kids’: Who Is Atef Najib, Assad’s Ruthless Cousin Given Death For Igniting Syrian War? Last Updated:August 12, 2026, 11:07 IST Along with Bashar al-Assad and his brother, Maher, death sentence was also given to Atef Najib, an Assad-era security official in Deraa, where the first protests erupted in 2011…