Sarah Latifa had feared that her Christian community in Syria may struggle to celebrate its first Christmas since ...

Twinkling lights, stars, bells and revolutionary flags are strung above the ancient streets of the old city of Damascus.

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over ...

When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis ...

Across Aleppo, churches are tentatively preparing for the Christmas period while celebrating the downfall of Assad, whose brutal rule was marked by enforced disappearances, mass detentions and ...

By Christmas Eve, the capital’s streets were ... while Alawites — the minority sect to which Assad belongs — along with Ismailis and Shiite Muslims collectively account for about 13 percent.

DAMASCUS, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in early December, in an early test of ...

Assad, who hails from the Alawite minority and ruled with an ... In an overnight protest over the Christmas tree burning, Georges, who only gave his first name, condemned "sectarianism" and "injustice ...