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A Syrian court has sentenced three individuals linked to violence along the country's coast, part of ongoing efforts to prosecute perpetrators of atrocities committed during and after the civil war. A former member of government forces received a 20-year sentence, while two supporters received lesser terms. Separately, a US court sentenced a former Assad-era Syrian official to 60 years in prison for torturing prisoners under Bashar al-Assad's regime, marking one of the most severe international penalties yet handed down against a figure from the former government.