Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa have already been marking the arrival of the new year with fireworks and festivities.

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

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

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

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the ...

Ukraine is pledging support for the new authorities in Syria, which was once a key Russian ally in the Mideast.

About half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children ...

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the ...

Syrian leader Bashar Assad was ousted after nearly 25 years in power. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 ...

Syria was once home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. Those numbers have shrunk dramatically, especially after the state of Israel was created in 1948. Today, only nine Jews live in ...