Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

Britain reestablished full diplomatic relations with Syria on Saturday, more than a decade after cutting ties, as Foreign ...

Four daily non-stop flights will connect Sharjah and the Syrian capital. Flights from Sharjah will depart at 4.15am and ...

Britain said on Saturday it was reestablishing diplomatic relations with Syria after the country's years-long civil war, as ...

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A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

The death toll from a suicide bombing at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Damascus on Sunday has risen to ...

Syria's Interior Ministry says the sleeper cell behind a deadly church explosion near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State ...

The Islamic State is believed to be behind a deadly suicide bombing that happened at a Greek Orthodox church in Syria on ...

Churches across Syria held funeral services for the victims of the suicide bombing that targeted St. Elias Church in the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Shiite pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century ...