New Zealand is set to welcome 2025 in about two hours, 18 hours before New York City. In Auckland, the country’s largest city ...

Follow DW for more. Ukrainian forces have captured ... aid Russia in the nearly three-year-long conflict in Ukraine. These live updates have been closed. Thank you for reading.

Reports of the burning of a Christmas tree come days after Syria's interim leader moved to assure minorities they'd be ...

Syria's new rulers began an operation in western Tartous province, home to many from ousted leader Bashar Assad's Alawite sect. The killing of 14 police officers the previous day has irked the ...

Russia's Vladimir Putin spoke on a range of topics for hours on state TV, not long after the collapse of his ally Bashar Assad's Syrian regime, and in the same week as one of his top generals was ...

DW has the latest. Syrian rebels have entered ... A war monitor said government forces left Damascus airport These live updates have been closed. Thank you for reading. For the latest developments ...

DW has the latest. Rebels led by Hayat Tahrir ... shut border crossings US and Russia urge citizens to leave Syria These live updates have been closed. Thank you for reading.

Syria's new government plans to suspend the country's constitution and parliament for a three-month transition period, government spokesperson Obaida Arnaout told France's AFP news agency.

"Long live Notre Dame de Paris ... rang out a little after 7 p.m. local time as the ceremony was set to begin. DW's Lisa Louis in Paris said the sounds were met with cheers from those waiting ...

A war monitor and the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group both said rebels have entered Syria's third city, Homs. Pro-government media also said Assad's forces were taking up positions on the ...

Follow DW for the latest. Russia's Foreign Ministry ... More than 50,000 people currently live on the rocky plateau, just over half of them Jewish Israelis and the rest from the Druze and Alawite ...