Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. The now ruling Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, HTS ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

For the past 60 years, we haven’t had that feeling. We always felt that the country was for Assad and his family.” Christmas decorations are about to go up in Bab Touma, old Damascus ...

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

Sarah Latifa had feared that her Christian community in Syria may struggle to celebrate its first Christmas since Islamist-led rebels toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad earlier this month.