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title: "News Wrap: Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia"
date: 2026-08-11
modified: 2026-08-12
author: ""
url: https://panamadaily.news/2026/08/11/news-wrap-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia/
categories:
  - "World"
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# News Wrap: Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia

In our news wrap Tuesday, ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes during the country's brutal civil war, authorities say at least six people were killed when Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired ballistic missiles on a vessel and the Democratic Republic of the Congo says the Ebola outbreak there has now killed more than 2,000 people.

[Read the full story at PBS](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia)