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

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 ...

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 ...

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

ISTANBUL — President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s autocratic ruler, was ousted Sunday after a quarter century in power, toppled after an Islamist rebel offensive that hurtled through Syrian cities ...

The liberation of Syria from the clutches of President Bashar al-Assad, after his family ruled the country for 50 years, is an unqualified good. How did it happen so quickly and so unexpectedly?

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 ...

Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s murderer-in-chief, has fled to Moscow. The people are celebrating, tearing down posters of Assad and statues of his equally vicious father, who founded the regime.

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future after rebels seized the capital, Damascus, and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 ...