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Atef Najib, former head of the Political Security Branch in the Daraa area during Bashar Assad's rule, sits in the defendants' cage during a trial session at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria’s first public trial of Assad-era officials opens in Damascus

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

The body of Muhannad Akrad, one of three people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, is carried for burial at the Omary mosque in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Mourners attend funeral of man killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syrian city of Daraa

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria. In March 2011, Daraa became the first city to explode against the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

In war-torn Syria, uprising birthplace seethes 10 years on

By SARAH EL DEEB and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria. In March 2011, Daraa became the first city to explode against the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Where Syria uprising began 10 years ago, dissent still rife

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this March 18, 2013, file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, free Syrian Army fighters fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video, File)

Rebels push forward in southern Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a general view shows Aleppo prison in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Syrian troops backed by airstrikes broke a yearlong rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday, allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby command center of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Mortar attack on Assad gathering in Syria kills 21

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press