The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over ...

Syrians have welcomed in a new year that seems to many to mean a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing “revolution” flags as Syria saw in the new year with ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met with senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls on the Islamist chief to ...

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

More than a billion people are set to tune in to watch the Times Square ball drop tonight. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The unthinkable in the troubled Middle East happened in 2024, with a major geopolitical shift after the stunning collapse of ...

The European Union's top diplomat in Syria has met the country's newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani.

A house in Lake Oswego that sold for $10.5 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Clackamas County in the past week.