Assad's regime, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr travelled to Syria to interview rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom ...

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

In images captured by Associated Press photographers in December, rifle-toting opposition fighters celebrated in the streets ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

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 ...

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 ...

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. But ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Christians attend Christmas mass at the Our Lady of Damascus church, after the overthrow of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 24, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh It was an early ...