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 ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told his men to keep fighting as he secretly plotted his escape to Russia. Getty Images Syrian rebels managed to end the Assad regime in the span of 12 days.

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.

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Basil al-Assad, who was already being groomed to control Syria, died in a car crash in 1994, paving the way for his younger brother Bashar to assume power when their father died.