First Syria trial of suspects in coastal massacres begins
The first trial of more than a dozen suspects linked to massacres that left hundreds dead in Syria鈥檚 Alawite coastal heartland earlier this year began on Tuesday, an AFP journalist in the courtroom said. The massacres in March, which authorities say broke out after attacks by supporters of ousted president Bashar al-Assad against their forces, left at least 1,426 people dead, most of them civilians, according to a national commission of inquiry...
