France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state while ...

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

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

Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the worst fighting since the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad in ...

Assad's fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country's ...

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 Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad -- issued before ...

France's Cour de Cassation, the country's highest court, ruled on Friday that a warrant issued for former Syrian leader ...