DEVELOPING · 18 SEP → 19 SEP 2026 · 2 EDITIONS · 3 OUTLETS

Former Syrian official sentenced to 60 years for torture under Assad regime

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

2026-09-18
Former Syrian Official Sentenced to 60 Years in U.S. for Torture
2026-09-19
Former Syrian official sentenced to 60 years for torture under Assad regime

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

Nidal Shikhani · 3 outlets

Entered the story later

74 years old · from 18 Sep 01:15, 2 outlets
20 years prison · from 18 Sep 01:15, 2 outlets
Former Syrian · from 18 Sep 01:15, 2 outlets
Adra Prison · from 18 Sep 01:15, 2 outlets
Nina Marino · from 18 Sep 01:15, 2 outlets
Collin Cate · from 18 Sep 01:15, 2 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

years prison: 60 (1 from 18 Sep 00:37) → 20 (2 from 18 Sep 01:15)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.