The death penalty applied for a range of charges in the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom’s modern history. The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported in the kingdom in 2021 and the 27 in 2020 [File: Cliff Owen/AP Photo] Saudi Arabia has executed 81 men over the past 24 hours, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian national, on charges including “allegiance to foreign terr

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Al Jazeera talks to Syrians who endured Russian air strikes as Moscow tries to advance its invasion of Ukraine. A Russian air force Mil Mi-17 helicopter flies over a joint Turkish-Russian military patrol in northeast Syria [File: AFP] The footage of Russian missiles striking Ukrainian cities soon made the rounds in Syria, and Ahmad al-Khatib, a native of  Aleppo, was stunned by what he saw. “He is