Languages: English. You can get in touch with Maya by emailing m.mehrara@newsweek.com. Syria has ended its Tartus port contract with Russia, allocating management of the facility to Damascus ...

For some goods, customs duties have been reduced by 60%, he told Al-Watan. After the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in early December 2024, the transitional government of Syria was headed by Mohammed al ...

Syria’s new authorities terminated a contract this week with a Russian company that had managed the port of Tartous for more than five years, further restricting the Russian presence in the country ...

At a late-night inaugural ball on Monday, President Trump, flush with his restoration to power, began waving a ceremonial sword he had been given almost as if it were a scepter and he were a king.

The Kurdish forces guarding ISIS fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new rulers in Damascus as they brace for attacks by the ultra-hardline ...

Staffers for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard were wrestling with a question: Had she really met with the authoritarian leader of Syria for almost three hours? It was Feb. 5, 2017, and the Hawaii Democrat ...

A few weeks later, Mr al-Shaibani resurfaced in Damascus in the cabinet of Syria’s new interim government. On January 15th he made an official visit to Turkey, where he had lived for over a ...

The name we recognize today as one of the most powerful voices during the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was originally not named “Martin Luther.” His father decided to change ...

The collapse of Bashar Al-Assad’s brutal regime in Syria in early December gave rise to hopes that an end to the country’s lengthy civil war was finally on the horizon. However, clashes continue in ...

STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors have requested the detention of a Swedish man on suspicion of war and terrorism crimes over the killing of a Jordanian air force pilot in Syria a decade ago ...

Today, the country pauses to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with parades, speeches and acts of service. At 8 a.m., the MLK Breakfast will take place at the Julia T. & Charles W. Cherry Sr.