Meanwhile, the lawyers for the family of journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria in 2012, have sued the Syrian government in a Washington, D.C., courtroom, accusing the Assad regime of having “assassinated” the war correspondent for The Sunday Times of London. The wrongful death lawsuit is the first war crimes-related case against the Syrian government to reach court. Her family’s lawyers have submitted thousands of pages of documents that they say reveal how Colvin was surveilled in Lebanon, tracked as she crossed into Syria, and then killed in an artillery strike on the Baba Amr media center in Homs as part of the Assad government’s deliberate policy to eliminate journalists. After the killing, according to a Syrian military defector, the intelligence officer responsible for ordering the artillery strike said, “Marie Colvin was a dog, and now she’s dead.” We’ll have more on Syria after headlines.