From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

As President Biden prepares to leave office, he has sought to take credit for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. That may or may not be justified, but Biden is grasping for anything in the world for which he can claim credit. He leaves behind a remarkably weak foreign policy record.

Syria’s new leadership may have just nixed a 49-year sweetheart naval base deal between ousted authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north and provided the only safe access route to Idlib, where HTS was based. Even so,

The French justice system has established the former Syrian president's complicity in a bombing raid on the city of Deraa in 2017. Bashar al-Assad is the target of a new arrest warrant (the second) issued by France for complicity in war crimes.

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national intelligence.

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in 2010 and 2011. These were anti-regime, pro-democracy ...

Dozens of relatives and friends of people who went missing during the regime of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rally in central Damascus, Syria, 27 December 2024, to demand answers about ...

Assad, from his rise to power to his regime's collapse. Chemical weapons, mass displacement, and unspeakable atrocities—Syria's darkest chapter laid bare.

2025 Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule. Why Turkey is so ...

Law enforcement agencies in Stockton and San Joaquin County said they would follow California law and would not help ICE with raids in the area.

Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires were at loggerheads with Mr Trump during his first presidency, culminating in Twitter, Facebook and YouTube banning him from their platforms following the insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan 6 2021. The picture could not be more different as Trump is sworn in for his second term.