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

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

In 2024, voters around the world often delivered a clear message: “You’re fired.”With some 70 countries conducting elections, ...

Syrian lawyers launched an online petition demanding free elections for their bar association after the country’s new rulers ...

The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dealt a crushing blow to Russia’s aspirations to great-power status. Due to ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria cannot live without other parts of the country, therefore ...

The year also saw the continuation of longer-term trends that were no less consequential – from ever-improving artificial ...

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 ...

Syria's new leaders are reported to have given some foreign Islamist fighters senior official posts in the country's armed ...

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