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

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 ...

France’s highest court is set to rule on whether it can strip the state immunity of Bashar al-Assad, the toppled Syrian leader in exile in Russia, because of the sheer brutal scale of evidence in ...

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 ...

President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by militants and rebels. Members of Jaish al ...

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.