Syria returns Assad's Légion d'honneur to France

Syria returned to France the prestigious Légion d'honneur it gave to President Bashar al-Assad, saying Thursday he would not wear the award of a "slave" to America.

File photo taken on June 27, 2001 of Syrian president Bashar el-Assad awarded French Legion d'Honneur medal by French president Jacques Chirac. Source: Balkis Press/ABACA