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

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

The Cour de Cassation upheld Assad’s head-of-state immunity, but added that since he is no longer in office, “new arrest ...

France's highest court is to decide Friday whether to uphold an arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad ...

Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organising the election process told state media Sunday.

Despite having been on opposite sides of the battle lines during the civil war, the new rulers in Damascus, headed by interim ...

Between independence from France in 1946 and 1970, when Hafez al-Assad – Bashar’s father – seized power, Syria was ruled by ...

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and ...

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad. By Charlie Smart, Anjali Singhvi, Bora Erden, Mika Gröndahl and K.K ...

The family had a history with the regime: Rania’s father—a prominent religious scholar—had spent 13 years in prison under Assad’s father, President Hafez al-Assad, because of his ...

Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad met with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in December 2002, accompanied by his wife Asama.