Syrians have taken to the streets to celebrate the first anniversary of the removal of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.With flags and fireworks, Syrians celebrate one year since fall of al-Assadhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/afp_6936de3fac3c-1765203519.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

When al-Assad fell, Mohamad Yamen finally felt free. On the first anniversary, he speaks of his hopes for the future.Memories of liberation and hope for the future: A Damascene’s storyhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image001-1-1765196059.jpg?resize=1200%2C630

Salvadoran attorney forced into exile by home raidSalvadoran attorney forced into exile by home raidhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20-Website-1765206846.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

Palestinian teenager Oweis Hemam says he was kidnapped and tortured by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.Video: Palestinian teen says he was tortured in settler kidnappinghttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765206306.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

The cancellation of thousands of flights by IndiGo has brought working conditions under the spotlight.India travel chaos: Are pilots overworked compared to other countries?aljazeera.com/wp-con...

European Council chief Antonio Costa and German government hit back at US security strategy harshly critical of Europe.EU slams critical US security strategy, notes ‘changed relationship’aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Israel's prime minister says duo will discuss 'difficult' phase two of Gaza ceasefire, concerning governance of enclave.Trump to host Netanyahu at White House on December 29: Israeli governmenthttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/afp_6936df9b47d4-1765203867.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Japan's Meteorological Agency says a tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet) could hit country's northeastern coast.Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes off Japan, triggers tsunami alerthttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AP25342528270562-1765205325.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Donald Trump vows to unleash AI competitiveness, but removing state oversight riles members of his Republican Party.Trump to sign ‘one-rule’ executive order on AI to bypass US state approvalshttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/reuters_6936d497-1765201047.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Heglig is Sudan's largest oil field and also the main processing facility for neighbouring South Sudan's oil exports.RSF seizes key Heglig oilfield as it pushes to expand control in Sudanhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ap_6936b88a05c9e-1765193866.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Massacres at the start of the war in Sudan should have shocked the world into action. They didn't.After el-Fasher, we must refuse a ‘new normal’ of mass atrocities in Darfurhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/afp_6901ac2b957c-1761717291.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Despite vast natural resources, Venezuela's economy is in a fragile state.How US pressure is squeezing Venezuela’s already fragile economyhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Venezuela16x9-1765200261.png?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

After al-Assad’s fall, a lawyer uncovers files from a notorious prison that reveals the fate of Syria’s disappeared.Syria’s Prison of Secrets: The Search for Sednaya’s Missinghttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765192061.jpg?resize=1621%2C1080&quality=80

The new security doctrine calls on the US to 'cultivate resistance' within Europe.Will Trump’s new security doctrine boost the rise of far right in Europe?aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Syrians say they’re celebrating a long-awaited sense of freedom, a year after the fall of the Assad regime.From fear to freedom: Syrians reflect one year after Assadhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765198671.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

As Syria celebrates one year since the fall of its longtime ruler, we look back at the events that followed.One year since the fall of Bashar al-Assad: A timelinehttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AP25342255255568-1765180135.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged his unwavering support for Israel during a visit to the country.Germany’s chancellor pledges staunch support in Israelhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765198073.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

A video diary for Al JazeeraBaraa in Syriahttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/01-H-1765195955.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

The moment a deadly fire broke out at a nightclub in Goa, India, was caught on camera.India investigates Goa nightclub fire as relatives identify victims’ bodieshttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765196925.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

President Talon pledges severe punishment for coup plotters after army thwarts attempts to overthrow his government.Benin’s foiled coup: How it unfolded and what we knowhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AP25341489521636-1765119059.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

One year ago, Syrians celebrated as opposition forces toppled the decades-long reign of the Assad family.How opposition forces toppled Syria’s Assad a year agohttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765195070.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

A team has begun the painstaking work of identifying the remains of the disappeared, but it could take years.Inside Syria’s fight to identify the disappearedhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/IDCentre-1765187233.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

“The poverty level among youths is extremely high.”Day-to-day lives of Beninois “have not been improved”aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Ukrainian leader faces rising pressure from US to accept deal that Russia hints meets its wishes.Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to meet European allies as US pushes revised peace planhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/reuters_6936a274-1765188212.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

The country marks one year since the overthrow of the al-Assad dynasty’s repressive 50-year rule.Syrians celebrate anniversary of Bashar al-Assad’s fallhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AP25342255192824-1765180902.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Al Jazeera reports from Aleppo on how the rebel offensive and regime instability led to the historical city's fall.Al Jazeera shows destruction in Syria’s old city of Aleppohttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765189038.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

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Thousands of Syrians have gathered in the capital Damascus to celebrate one year since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.Syrians gather to mark one year since the fall of the Assad regimehttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765185954.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

After Yasser Abu Shabab was killed, al-Duhaini has pledged to continue the Popular Forces’ campaign against Hamas.Who is Ghassan al-Duhaini, Abu Shabab’s successor?aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Feuding countries trade accusations amid escalating dispute following Japanese PM's comments about Taiwan.Japan summons China envoy over ‘fighter jet radar lock’ as tensions surgehttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AP865135773766-1765181803.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Video shows crowds in Gaza celebrating after Palestine qualified for the Arab Cup quarter-finals.Celebrations in Gaza as Palestine qualifies for Arab Cup quarter-finalshttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765180451.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

One year after al-Assad’s fall, nearly 1.8 million displaced Syrians and 780,000 refugees have returned home.How many Syrians have returned home one year since the fall of al-Assad?aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Aid cuts mean UN is asking for just half of anticipated need and is forced to prioritise only the most desperate.UN faces ‘brutal choices’ as it launches 2026 aid appealhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ap_69366dfbc4a5d-1765174779.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said that Israel is carrying out what he calls a “scholasticide” in Gaza.Humza Yusaf says Israel deliberately destroyed Gaza’s education systemhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/yt-1765177723.jpg?resize=1800%2C1063

A 13-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father’s death in one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservation parks.Searching for Amani: A boy investigates his father’s death in Kenyahttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1764842287.jpg?resize=1920%2C858&quality=80

Israel has kept attacking Gaza during the first phase, so what will the second phase bring?Are Israel, Hamas entering the second phase of the ceasefire?aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Carl Skau, deputy executive director at the World Food Programme, talks limitations concerns in SudanWFP says six million starving in Sudanhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765168563.jpg?resize=1200%2C675

At least 153 students and 12 teachers taken from a Catholic school last month remain in captivity.Nigeria secures release of 100 kidnapped children, reports sayhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/reuters_69361168-1765151080_a48a19-1765163629.jpg?resize=1200%2C630&quality=80

Nigeria's president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.Nigeria says it deployed troops to Benin to ‘dislodge coup plotters’aljazeera.com/wp-con...

The attacks are the latest report of tensions flaring between the neighbours, after a ceasefire was agreed to in July.Thailand launches air raids along Cambodia border after deadly clasheshttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/afp_69363886546f-1765161094.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

These are the key developments from day 1,383 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,383https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/afp_6935ee68dbe1-1765142120.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Substitute Williot Swedberg scores brace to defeat Real Madrid, who ended game with nine players after two red cards.Celta Vigo earn shock 2-0 win at the Bernabeu as Real Madrid implodehttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/getty_6935fd92c9-1765146002.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

What kind of Syria is the new government trying to build? And what challenges is it facing?Syria: One year after al-Assadhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765143702.jpg?resize=1920%2C1061&quality=80

A Kremlin spokesperson said that the changes 'correspond in many ways to our vision'.Russia welcomes Trump’s revised US security strategyhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AP25227747123295-1756477587.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

Rwandan President Paul Kagame praises Trumpian diplomacy for de-emphasizing ‘democracy, freedom and human rights’.Kagame: ‘Never seen this much attention’ to ending Africa warhttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765123890.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

Gaza dominates the Doha Forum as experts warn political pressure and blocked accountability undermine international law.‘We need to make it work’: Can international law deliver justice?aljazeera.com/wp-con...

Follow the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the game as Madrid host Celta Vigo at the Santiago Bernabeu.LIVE: Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo – La Ligahttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/getty_6935bf029d-1765129986.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440

The Road to Damascus documents the lightning offensive that toppled the al-Assad regime.The Road to Damascushttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1765124380.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80

The Israeli efforts to establish Palestinian rule in Gaza loyal to the occupation are doomed.Abu Shabab’s death signals the inevitable failure of Israel’s plan for Gazahttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Yasser-Abu-Shabab-1764857719.jpg?resize=1200%2C675

A year after al-Assad fell, Syria’s new leadership faces the danger of Syrians frustrated by justice delayed or denied.The fragile fight for justice in a post-Assad Syriahttps://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ziad1-1765108897.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440