Syrian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former president Bashar Al Assad on murder and torture charges, the first legal action against him by the country he ruled for 24 years. However, ...

A Syrian judge has issued an arrest warrant against Bashar al-Assad on charges related to the 2011 events in Daraa.

The former Syrian president faces "charges of intentional murder, torture leading to death, and deprivation of liberty" ...

On 8 December 2024, the government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed as the army of the former al-Qaeda leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa entered Damascus and seized the institutions of the Syrian state. The Syrian ...

PARIS — French investigating judges have issued arrest warrants for seven former top Syrian officials, including ex-President Bashar al-Assad, for the bombing of a press centre in Homs in 2012, a ...

French judges have issued arrest warrants for former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and six top aides for the killing and wounding of a group of journalists during the Syrian civil war in 2012. Among ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident.

The French Cour de Cassation, on Friday, annulled an arrest warrant against the former president of Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, holding that sitting foreign leaders are immune from prosecution. On the ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state while green-lighting possible future war crime warrants, drawing ...