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.

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 de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls for the head of Hayat Tahrir ...

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 ...

The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise ...

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.

Syria is looking at strategic partnerships with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart on Monday, ...

Iran and its proxies and allies — from Syria to Lebanon to Gaza — have taken a beating in military engagements this year.

Carolyn Van Houten, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Salwan Georges and Carmen Abd Ali — look back at the stories they covered.