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

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.

Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar ...

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 ...

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

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

Through prayer and protest, believers struggle to interpret the promises of newly ascendant Islamist leadership.

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 ...

The toppling of the Assad family also unleashed a search for ... chaplain held a church service for an infantry unit during Christmas near the front-line town of Chasiv Yar. A wide-eyed ...