Zor, the Christian community that once thrived in eastern Syria faces near extinction.Fourteen years of civil war left all ...

For many Syrians, the Baathist-Assad flag was a flag of fear. During the 2011 Arab Spring, protesters across Syria demanding democracy and freedom resurrected the independence flag, waving it as ...

Authorities blamed the Islamic State for a suicide bombing at a church outside Damascus, citing preliminary investigations.

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to ...

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

Protests broke out in Syria over the Dec. 23 burning of a Christmas tree in a Christian-majority town in Hama amid other reports of harassment, prompting calls for the new Islamist authorities to ...

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 Christian ...

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch John Yazigi said Sharaa’s phone call expressing condolences ’was not enough’ and ...

The Associated Press. Fall of Assad government raises concerns for Syria's Christian minorities. Posted: December 10, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025 ...

Easter, for Syria’s historically persecuted Christians, was therefore something of a test. How would the new government led by President Ahmed al-Shara, a former Al Qaeda member who says he has ...

Roughly 125 miles north of Damascus, in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, ... carrying crucifixes and Syrian flags. Some shouted, “We demand the rights of Christians. ...