A dissident's story: How Assad’s cousin Najib inflicted violence before revolt that led to death sentence
The National · 12 Aug 2026

A dissident's story: How Assad’s cousin Najib inflicted violence before revolt that led to death sentence

Syrian dissident Mahmoud Eisa was about to step into a taxi in Damascus with a communist comrade in the autumn of 1992 when security agents ambushed them. They were shoved into a white Peugeot that took them to a security branch. With them in the car was Atif Najib, the intelligence operative senten


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