• Gaza Health Officials Say Latest Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 14 Including Children
  
  Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed at least 14 people including children Sunday, Palestinian health officials said, while the bombing of a hospital in northern Gaza wounded a halfdozen patients.Israel's military continues its latest offensive against Hamas militants...
• Syrian Rebels Topple President Assad
  
  Syrian rebels announced on state television on Sunday that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, eliminating a 50-year family dynasty in a lightning offensive that raises the specter of a new wave of instability in a Middle East gripped by war.Syria's army command...
• Global Reaction to Assad's Sudden Ouster from Syria Ranges from Jubilation to Alarm
  
  Across the Middle East and beyond, the fall of Syria's authoritarian government at the hands of jihadi militants set off waves of jubilation, trepidation and alarm.Expatriate Syrians and many residents across the Middle East exulted at the overthrow of a leader who led his...
• US Presidential Transition May Occur Against Widening Mideast Crisis
  
  The sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is forcing the Biden administration and the incoming Trump team to confront intensifying questions about the possibility of greater conflicts across the Middle East.President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that...
• Ukraine Says Assad's Fall Underscores Russian Weakness
  
  The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad underscores Russia's weakness and inability to fight on two fronts, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Sunday.Russia had bolstered Assad's government by staging air strikes against opposition targets beginning in 2015 and had...
• Phares to Newsmax: US in 'Good Position' After Assad Ouster
  
  As the U.S. military is already in place in regions of Syria and on the border of Iraq, that leaves the United States in a "good position" after the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Walid Phares, a former policy adviser for President-elect Donald Trump, said.
• 'I Can Finally Go Home': Syrians in Egypt Rejoice at Fall of Assad
  
  Reda al-Khedr was only five when his mother escaped the siege of Homs in 2014. A decade later in Cairo, he can hardly believe the Syrian government that killed his father has fallen."I can barely remember Syria," Khedr, now 15, told AFP in the Egyptian capital."But now...
• Trump: US Could Withdraw From NATO
  
  Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on hard-line campaign pledges to impose trade tariffs and carry out mass deportations, while dangling the idea that the United States could withdraw from NATO.In his first formal television interview -- and just six weeks before he takes...
• Russia Losing Military Bases, Port in Syria Serious Threat to Putin
  
  Russia said on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left office and departed his country after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, but did not say where he was now or whether the Russian military planned to stay in Syria.Islamist rebels declared they...
• Israel's Netanyahu Hails Fall of Assad as 'Historic Day'
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad on Sunday as an "historic day" that followed the blows delivered by Israel against Assad's supporters Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.On a visit to the area near the border with Syria, he...
• Syria Latest: Syrians Celebrate Bashar Assad's Fall as His Whereabouts Remain Unknown
  
  Crowds gathered in Syria's Damascus on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad's government with chants, prayers and the occasional gunfire after opposition fighters entered the capital following a stunning advance.Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human...
• How it Happened: Two Seismic Weeks That Toppled Syria's Government
  
  Half a century of rule by the Assad family in Syria crumbled with astonishing speed after insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave and converged on the capital, Damascus, taking city after city in a matter of days.Opposition forces swept across the country and entered...
• Syrians Stroll Through Assad's Palaces, Take Furniture and Ornaments
  
  Groups of Syrians strolled through the palaces of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday following his ouster, wandering from room to room, posing for photographs, and with some taking items of furniture or ornaments.Video obtained by Reuters showed people entering the...
• Zelensky Says Kyiv Wants 'enduring' Peace to Protect it from Russia
  
  Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday he told US President-elect Donald Trump Kyiv needed an "enduring" peace that Russia will not "destroy" in the future, after they met in Paris for talks on the almost three-year war.Trump had earlier said Zelenskyy was keen...
• Trump Calls for 'immediate Ceasefire' in Ukraine after Meeting Zelenskyy in Paris
  
  U.S. Presidentelect Donald Trump on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after a meeting in Paris with French and Ukrainian leaders, claiming Kyiv "would like to make a deal" to end the more than 1,000day war.In a post on his Truth Social platform,...
• Who Is Abu Mohammed Al-Golani, the Leader of the Insurgency That Toppled Syria's Assad?
  
  Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria's President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaida and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance. In recent...
• US Announces Nearly $1B More in Ukraine Weapons Support
  
  The United States will provide nearly $1 billion more in longer-term weapons support to Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday as the Biden administration rushes to spend all the congressionally approved money it has left to bolster Kyiv before...
• Hemingway Look-Alikes Visit Cuba
  
  Ernest Hemingway has returned to Cuba... in a way.Eighteen white-bearded men who resemble the late U.S. author arrived in Havana to visit some of his favorite places when he lived on the island decades ago.The members of the Hemingway Look-alike Society on Saturday visited...
• Ghana's Ruling Party Candidate Concedes Presidential Election to His Opposition Rival
  
  Ghana's vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday conceded defeat to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation's tightly contested presidential election.Ahead of the official announcement, Bawumia...
• Whereabouts of Syria's Assad Unknown
  
  Syria's Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane in Damascus for an unknown destination early on Sunday, two senior army officers said, as rebels seized the city and ousted him from power after 24 years as president.Assad has not spoken in public since the sudden rebel advance a...
• Israeli Strikes Hit Gaza and Southern Lebanese Villages
  
  Israeli strikes on two southern Lebanese villages killed six people and wounded five, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday, in the latest potential challenge to a fragile ceasefire that has been in place for less than two weeks.Five people were killed in an attack...
• South Korean Opposition Plans New Impeachment Push
  
  South Korea's main opposition party said Sunday it will try again to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after his declaration of martial law.Meanwhile police arrested the defence minister in charge of the martial law operation, and the interior minister resigned. Both they and...
• Notre Dame' Hosts First Mass Since 2019 Fire
  
  Notre Dame Cathedral on Sunday will host its first Mass since the catastrophic fire of 2019, a moment that transcends religious significance to become a powerful symbol of Paris' resilience.For Catholics, it marks the revival of the city's spiritual heart, a place where...
• Taiwan Reports Near Doubling of Chinese Warships Nearby
  
  Taiwan's defense ministry said on Sunday that China had nearly doubled the number of its warships operating around the island in the previous 24 hours, ahead of what security sources expect will be a new round of war games.China, which views democratically governed Taiwan...
• Milan's Brera Boosts Its Cultural Cachet with an Overdue Modern Art Wing and Leonardo's Last Supper
  
  Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera museum, conceived under Napoleon as a "little Louvre," is finally getting a modern art addition first envisioned more than 50 years ago with the opening Sunday of Palazzo Citterio, home to one of the world's most important collections of 20th...

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