Contents tagged with Legion of Honor
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Media: Assad gave up his Legion of Honor medal after France’s strike on Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad returned to France his National Order of the Legion of Honor medal that he received from former French President Jacques Chirac in 2001, Le Parisien reports. According to representatives of the Syrian administration, it was returned because of France's participation in the "trilateral aggression" against Syria.
The Syrian leader pre-empted the French authorities who had announced earlier that they would start the procedure for recalling the award from President …