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BELGRADE - Congratulating Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on January 9, Republika Srpska Day, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia would continue to stand firmly with Srpska, regardless of the gravity of ordeals and challenges ahead.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has threatened that Republika Srpska will secede from Bosnia and Herzegovina if the Bosnian judiciary bans him from political activities.

Türkiye and Qatar are set to dispatch two electricity-generating ships to Syria in a bid to alleviate the country's severe energy crisis, exacerbated by widespread infrastructure damage during toppled President Bashar al-Assad's rule, Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Jan. 7.

People pose for photos with balloons near Al-Hamidiyeh Souq on New Years Eve, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024

Syria's minister of information in the country's transitional government told AFP he is working towards a free press and committed to "freedom of expression", after decades of control under the former rulers.

Children warm by the fire at the Bureij camp for displaced Palestinians on Dec. 30, 2024

The transformative and tumultuous events that unfolded across the Middle East in 2024 have set the stage for 2025 to emerge as a year of profound geopolitical, socio-political and strategic recalibrations.

Christians attend Christmas mass at the Lady of Damascus Church in the Syrian capital, on December 24, following the ousting of the country's president Bashar al-Assad. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former al-Qaeda affiliate that led the rebel campaign against Assad, has preached religious coexistence and pledged to protect minority groups.

Ukraine’s Special Forces have released excerpts from a diary they claim belonged to a North Korean soldier killed during fighting in Kursk region of Russia.

Russia is against the deployment of Western peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

Slovakia has confirmed it is ready to host peace talks on Ukraine, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Bratislava had offered to be a “platform” for dialogue on the Ukrainian issue.