Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

Economic shock therapy: plans include privatizations and slashing public sector jobs Reforms designed to avoid chaos of ...

Syrians were euphoric after suddenly being freed from decades of repression. NPR's Jane Arraf in Damascus takes a look at how things have changed since then. (SOUNDBITE OF CAR HORN HONKING) JANE ARRAF ...

President Donald Trump has ordered that all US government staff working on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes be put on immediate paid administrative leave. On Tuesday, the White House ...

UPDATE: On January 23, 2025, Turkish Airlines resumed flights on the Istanbul (IST) to Damascus (DAM) route. The first aircraft to operate this service, with flight number TK846, was a Boeing 777-300 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is in the process of purging more than 1,000 Biden appointees from their government roles, and has already announced several high-profile firings, placed ...

Donald Trump has wasted no time in getting to work after being sworn in as president on Monday (20 January), publicly sacking White House staff. The 78-year-old's inauguration was not short of ...

equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves follow an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal ...

The Trump administration is moving to put employees in federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. The move, which calls for agencies to develop a ...

Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and ...