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

From spectacular fireworks displays to plunging into icy waters, revellers around the world have welcomed the arrival of 2025 ...

Syria has celebrated its first New Year since the ousting of dictator Bashar Al Assad after more than 43 years of his ...

Cities worldwide celebrated New Year's Eve with fireworks displays and public gatherings, marking the transition from 2024 to ...

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 ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...

Top diplomats from Germany and France went to Damascus on behalf of the European Union. It’s the first such trip in years, ...

The push to reopen Damascus International Airport highlights the challenges facing Syria's new leaders in rebuilding the country.

Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war.

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's forces.