France's highest court will decide if former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can be stripped of head-of-state immunity, ...

Court cancels arrest warrant against Syria’s ex-president over deadly 2013 chemical attacks issued before his removal.

France's highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was ...

France's highest court is ruling on whether it can strip Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian leader now in exile in Russia, of ...

When Syria’s rebels captured Aleppo late last week, it sent tremors through the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Those tremors have now become an earthquake. Many observers thought that capturing Hama ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

France's highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven months after the group overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and seized ...

As the second son of Hafez al-Assad, the uncompromising military dictator who established one of the Middle East’s most murderous dynasties, Bashar had been destined for a quiet life as an ...

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shibani emphasised Syria’s desire to have Russia “by our side” and called for “mutual respect” between the two countries at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister ...