DAMASCUS — Syria's new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed.
DAMASCUS — Syria's new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al- Assad on Thursday, with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed. Assad fled Syria after an Islamist-led offensive wrested from his control city after city until the capital Damascus fell on Dec. 8, ending his family's five-decade rule and more than 13 years of civil war.
The United Kingdom-based monitor said the wanted man, Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, 'held the position of director of the military justice department and field court chief' at the notorious Saydnaya prison complex.He had 'issued death sentences and arbitrary judgments against thousands of prisoners,' the monitor added.
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