Syria’s security forces have detained Wassim Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday. Wassim Assad was sanctioned by the United States in 2023 for leading a paramilitary force backing Assad’s army and for trafficking drugs including the amphetamine-like drug captagon. Bashar Assad was toppled by an Islamist-led rebel insurgency in December and fled to Moscow. Most of his family members and inner circle either fled Syria or went underground.

Syria’s security forces have detained Wassim Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday. Wassim Assad was sanctioned by the United…

Le cousin de Bachar Al-Assad a été capturé dans le cadre d’« une embuscade soigneusement préparée », selon le ministère de l’intérieur syrien. Il est « considéré comme l’un des…