France has significantly upped its efforts to unblock Western military support for rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by calling for the European Union to lift its arms embargo in the ...

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Paris and Damascus are discussing transferring €32 million ($37 million) to Syria after assets belonging to former vice president Rifaat Al Assad were confiscated in France, The National can reveal.

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday that fighting ISIS and ending bloodshed in Syria is a "priority" after weeks of fighting. Mr Barrot arrived in Damascus on Thursday as part ...

French judicial authorities issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother and two army generals for alleged complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, ...

France will launch surveillance flights over Syria from Tuesday with a view to conducting airstrikes on Islamic State positions, President Francois Hollande said on Monday. "I have asked the defence ...

The women repatriated early Tuesday morning are aged between 18 and 34 — Delil SOULEIMAN France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian camps ...

Assad was toppled last year after more than 14 years of devastating civil war — Abdullah HAMMAM French magistrates this summer issued a new arrest warrant against ousted Syrian president Bashar ...

France on Tuesday repatriated three women and 10 children from Syrian prisons for alleged jihadists, anti-terror prosecutors said -- a move that remains divisive a ...