LONDON, Dec 25 — Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025.

DAMASCUS, Dec 20 — Syria will remove all references to the former ruling Baath party from its educational system as of next week but will not otherwise change school curricula or restrict the rights of girls to learn, the country's new education minister said.

QUTAYFAH, Syria — Dec 18 — An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 — The head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organisation yesterday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

BEIRUT, Dec 17 — Syria's Bashar al-Assad issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim base on December 8 as it came under drone attack, after leaving Damascus that morning with rebel fighters closing in.

RIYADH, Dec 16 — Saudi Arabia and Qatar condemned an Israeli decision yesterday to expand settlement building in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

DAMASCUS, Dec 13 — A hip bone in a blown-out building, part of a spine amid some debris, a few foot bones in a worn-out sock.

NEW DELHI, Dec 13 — Pakistan has yesterday called the Israeli regime's attacks and land grab in Syria as a "grave breach" of Syrian sovereignty.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — Malaysia has urged all parties involved in the Syrian crisis to engage in inclusive and constructive dialogue to pave the way for recovery, peace, and long-term stability in the war-torn country, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.

TUMPAT, Dec 12 — The Kelantan state government has suffered over RM30 million in losses due to the first wave of floods that occurred at the end of last month.

ATHENS/BERLIN, Dec 12 — Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow first beamed from the television in his tiny Athens apartment.

YAYLADAGI, Dec 10 — Ala Jabeer cried as he prepared to cross from Turkiye into Syria with his 10-year-old daughter on Tuesday, thirteen years after the war forced him to flee his home.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 9 — Malaysia calls on all concerned parties to engage in inclusive and constructive dialogue to pave the way for recovery and secure long-term peace and stability in Syria.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — Asian Football Confederation (AFC) secretary-general Datuk Seri Windsor Paul John has confirmed that the Syrian Football Association (SFA) is stable, although there is a possibility of changes in terms of its logo, flag, and national anthem, due to the current political situation in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — The ringgit closed lower against the greenback on Monday as strong US nonfarm payrolls (NFP) data and the fall of the government in Syria spurred buying of the safe haven US dollar.

BEIRUT, Dec 9 — As the commander of al Qaeda's franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most powerful faction fighting to topple Bashar al-Assad.

AMMAN/BEIRUT/CAIRO, Dec 8 — Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, 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 the Middle East.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 8 — Malaysia is closely monitoring the evolving situation in Syria and its potential implications for regional stability.

AMMAN/BEIRUT/CAIRO, Dec 8 — Syrian rebels have said that they ended Bashar al-Assad's 24-year authoritarian rule, in their first announcement on state television following a lightning offensive that took the world by surprise.

BEIRUT, Oct 5 — Over 200,000 Syrian and Lebanese nationals have arrived in Syria from Lebanon since the start of the Israeli attacks on September 23, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said on Saturday, reported Sputnik.