International aid planes and foreign diplomatic delegations have already been landing in Syria. Domestic flights have also ...

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

Syrians released from Sednaya prison celebrate their freedom in Damascus. Those released from the jail danced and held ...

It was the first new year's celebration without an Assad in power for more than 50 years after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday he was preparing to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria, less ...

Crowds around the world marvelled at fireworks, raised their toasts and greeted 2025 across dozens of timezones as they bid farewell to a tumultuous year that was the hottest on record in more ways ...

Britain saw in 2025 with a series of spectacular fireworks displays – despite weather warnings threatening celebrations. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames as London defied ...

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

Thousands of Syrians gathered in Bab Touma Square in the Syrian capital Damascus to welcome the New Year 2025. The crowd was ...

Old Damascus was alive on New Year's Eve, nearly a month after rebels ended more than 50 years of Assad family rule 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 ...

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