Assad sentenced to death, as Syria turns a page
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#77M4P)
Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his younger brother were sentenced to death in absentia by a Damascus court today, nearly two years after victorious rebels forced them to seek exile in Russia. The University of Oklahoma's Joshua Landis tells The World's Host Marco Werman that it's unlikely the Kremlin would surrender the Assads.