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Blinken: US supports ‘peaceful transition’

Bashar Assad the longtime, iron-fisted ruler of Syria, has fled the country as rebels capture Damascus. The civil war lasted nearly 14 years, but what comes next is still uncertain. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris. A look at trade tariffs: who benefits and who loses? Plus, the latest from South Korea, and the manhunt in New York for the suspect in the killing of the CEO of a large health...

American officials signal continued support for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, part of ongoing fight against resurgent Islamic State terror group

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Police have been using increasing force in their attempts to curb the demonstrations

Both U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump reacted Sunday to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. Given its strategic interests in the Middle East, the U.S. is expected to keep a close eye on what lies ahead in Syria. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports.

Kurdish politicians in Turkey expressed their satisfaction with the end of the Assad regime in Syria. Speaking to VOA Turkish, several Kurdish politicians in Turkey called on Ankara to see the Kurds in Syria as friends and allies rather than as a threat. They also called on Kurdish groups in Syria to reconcile with Turkey. Following the developments in Syria, the first statement from Kurdish political actors in Turkey came from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM...

Each concert lasted about three-and-a-half hours and featured at least 44 songs, divided into 10 parts, or 'eras,' of her recording career

As the 61-year Baathist regime comes to an end, with Syrian President Bashar Assad leaving the country, one of the largest celebrations abroad is being held in Turkey, which hosts nearly 3 million Syrian refugees. Istanbul, which hosts nearly 500,000 Syrian refugees, has been the scene of many demonstrations since Saturday evening. Sunday, opponents of the regime removed the Syrian flag hanging at the Syrian Consulate General in Istanbul’s Tesvikiye district, and they celebrated the...

St. Nicholas’ Reindeers initiative publishes letters online detailing children's wishes

The civil war in Syria, which began in 2011, gained a new dimension with the overthrow of the Assad regime. After armed rebel groups let by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered Damascus, Assad left Syria. Russian state media reported that Assad and his family arrived in Moscow. Military sources and experts in France who assessed the developments for VOA Turkish agreed that the biggest winner in the latest developments is Turkey, “while the biggest losers are Iran and Russia.” However, they...

Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar Assad and seized control of Damascus, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a seismic moment for Middle East

Collapse of Bashar Assad's rule over Syria marks culmination of a nearly 14-year rebellion and a key moment in civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced half the population and drew in outside powers