A US court has sentenced a former official who served under Bashar al-Assad's government to six decades in prison over the torture of detainees, according to Al Jazeera.
Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who ran Syria's Adra prison under Bashar al-Assad's government, received what is described as the most significant sentence handed to a former Assad official by a foreign court.
A Syrian court has handed down sentences ranging from 20 years to death for three individuals linked to violence in the country's coastal region, according to Al Jazeera.
A Syrian court issued its first verdicts over last year's killings of Alawites on the Syrian coast, sentencing a former government forces member to 20 years and a supporter of ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death.
IAEA chief says a covert facility built during Bashar al-Assad's rule, if completed, could have generated fissile material usable in nuclear weapons.