The three, who last week tore up signs and damaged property at the protest tent of bereaved families, didn't show up in court for their hearing

In response to legal challenges to the cabinet's decision to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the cabinet has agreed to follow the decision of the advisory committee headed by retired Justice Asher Grunis on the condition that the committee meets despite a vacancy on the panel and issues its opinion within two weeks

The nudity ban at Damascus University's Faculty of Fine Arts has ignited a fierce debate over artistic freedom in post-Assad Syria, reviving old questions about nudity and its place in Islamic art