For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

Bashar al-Assad, who took over from his father Hafez ... Muslim embarked on the first day of a month of fasting and prayer. Syria's interim Ministry of Religious Endowments reportedly ordered ...

Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the Assad family’s iron-fisted rule, ...

Scores of Christians – priests, mothers, children – were caught up in the violence triggered by a revolt that broke out in Assad's former stronghold. In a message, Syrian patriarchs be ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

Bashar Assad, a minority Alawite, gave preferential treatment to his community over the majority Sunni Muslim population, often repressed. Syria's new government led by interim president, Ahmed ...

The city is known for its bustling atmosphere and relative acceptance of social and religious differences with many churches, mosques and Druze prayer ... loyal to Bashar al-Assad during the ...

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