France's highest court rules arrest warrant for ex-Syrian leader Assad is invalid


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  • Friday, 25 Jul 2025

FILE PHOTO: A billboard with a picture of Syria's Bashar al-Assad shows damage by bullet holes, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 16, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) -France's Cour de Cassation, the country's highest court, ruled on Friday that a warrant issued for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Writing by Makini Brice)

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