DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city. Yet ...

Follow the latest on Syria The first Christmas Eve of a new Syria – following the overthrow of president Bashar Al Assad's government by armed rebels – passed peacefully but “cautiously” in the ...

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

Syria’s de-facto leader met with Christian clerics on New Year's Eve. This came after several alarming incidents in late ...

Syria’s Christians now join those in Lebanon and Palestinian territories celebrating Christmas amid great uncertainty and fear in the region. The protesters in the capital marched towards churches to ...

blamed foreign fighters for the Christmas tree burning and said they had been arrested. Thousands of foreign fighters have poured into Syria during the country’s 13-year civil war, which drew in ...

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

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

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

DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city.