Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his younger brother were sentenced to death in absentia by a Damascus court this week. But Joshua Landis, from The University of Oklahoma, tells The World’s Host Marco Werman that it’s unlikely the Kremlin would surrender the Assads.

A criminal court in Damascus sentenced former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia on Tuesday for premeditated murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes…

Bashar and Maher Assad remain in Russia after fleeing Syria following the collapse of their government. Syria's new authorities have called on Moscow to extradite them to face…