A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is pictured with its frame broken in a Syrian regime's Political Security Branch facility on the outskirts of the central city of Hama, on Dec. 7.

New legal proceedings have been set in motion against Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad, after France’s top court ...

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

Lebanon has decided to rename a thoroughfare named after former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in favor of late Lebanese ...

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

Violence has forced those once supportive of President Ahmed al-Sharaa to  reckon with growing Sunni majoritarianism ...

French prosecutors said Monday they have requested a new arrest warrant against Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad over ...

One third of 'interim' People's Assembly to be appointed by president while rest will be selected by handpicked local bodies ...

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

Al-Assad came to power in 2000 by a twist of fate. His father had been cultivating Bashar’s oldest brother, Basil, as his successor, but in 1994, Basil was killed in a car crash in Damascus.

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After a half century of despotic rule by Bashar al-Assad and his father, who killed or imprisoned anyone who challenged the family dynasty's iron rule, many Syrians around the world breathed a ...