From Sydney to Vladivostok, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. Auckland became the first major city to celebrate, as ...

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

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

Syria's new government likely needs arms to solidify its hold on power. That's an opening for its Turkish backers.

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

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 ...

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

Assad’s Ba’athist government is the culmination of a thirteen-year civil war. Key global trends fed into Syria’s suffering: ...

West Asia in 2024 stands at a crossroads. While the region faces numerous challengesfrom political instability to economic ...

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