Fresh questions have emerged over the death of Luna al-Shibl, one of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s closest advisers, after an investigation by UK’s The Observer cited medical evidence and witness accounts suggesting that the 2024 car crash that killed her may not have been accidental. Shibl died on 5 July 2024, three days after Syrian authorities announced that she had been seriously injured in a road accident near Damascus. At the t…