Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people across the Gaza Strip, including several ...

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 18 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including three children and two high-ranking officers in the Hamas-run po ...

Most Syrians have only known life under the Assad regime. Now, throughout the world, they are celebrating a new uncertain era ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024 ...

In a sign of the times, 2024 whizzed by in the instant it took for a bullet to travel 150 yards from a rooftop through a ...

For decades, any Syrian daring to broach political topics got used to speaking in hushed tones and with a watchful eye ...

Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my ...

Syria’s long-ruling Baath party has frozen its activities after insurgents overthrew President Bashar Assad weeks ago ...

Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.

Thousands and thousands of Syrians of all ages dancing and embracing, weeping and singing, waving the country's new flag and celebrating the end of ...

Fear of the regime was so pervasive that Syrians felt they could never speak freely, even in their own homes.

Assad, who fled Syria for Russian exile less ... But we could not talk about it. Walls have ears," he told AFP. "Ultimately, we realised that we were worth nothing. Our blood was shed in vain ...