News Wrap: Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes committed during his country's brutal civil war, PBS NewsHour reports. Assad, whose family ruled Syria for decades before his ouster, was not present to hear the verdict.

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