Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war.

Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and ...

The world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday (Dec 31) with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a ...

Syria's newly formed transitional government confirms appointment of Murhaf Abu Qasra, the Islamist military commander who ...

New Year celebrations in South Korea have been cancelled or scaled back following Sunday's plane crash at Muan International Airport. The country entered a seven-day period of mourning after 179 ...

Syria, a country picking up the pieces after the collapse of the Assad regime, is preparing for a radical financial overhaul: ...

In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest ...

Syrians are welcoming in 2025 after years of conflict and change. On Friday evening, December 27, Volodymyr Zelensky declared ...

Christians in Maaloula in western Syria have been living with an intensifying fear for their safety, exacerbated by a recent incident.

Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan ...

Russia’s connection to the rupture of an undersea cable between Finland and Estonia is raising a new bevy of fears over the ...

War-weary Palestinians in Gaza who lost their homes and loved ones in 2024 saw little hope that 2025 would bring an end to ...