The Assad family's rule was among the most brutal in the region and its prison system, including feared sites such as ...

The 14 years under Assad’s authoritarian leadership has been brutal but now Syria is facing many other challenges, including ...

Assad's former regime in Syria. As the investigation by Shane Bauer for the New York Times Magazine notes, the regime ...

Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organising the election process told state media Sunday.

France's highest court has overturned an arrest warrant issued in 2023 for the former Syrian president. However, it found that he can now be prosecuted, as he is no longer in office.

Amidst the turmoil in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, security concerns in the Red Sea following attacks by ...

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 criticism ...

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 criticism ...

France's highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was issued when he was still in office, but said a new warrant can now be ...

France's highest court Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad -- issued before his ouster -- over 2013 deadly chemical attacks.The Court of Cassation ...

France’s Cour de Cassation, the country’s highest court, has ruled that an arrest warrant issued for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad over the use of chemical weapons in Ghouta in 2013 and ...