Afraid of the unknown' - In Bab Touma, a Christian-majority neighbourhood of Damascus, carols rang out from a cafe which was festively decorated and lit, and fitted with a Christmas tree.

Armed groups fired a number of mortar rounds on the neighborhood of Bab Touma, claiming the lives of three citizens and causing different injuries for eight others, a source at Damascus Police ...

There were celebrations in Damascus on Sunday as crowds stormed ... a resident of the old neighbourhood of Bab Touma. Military uniforms were abandoned on some streets, while checkpoints were ...

On the outskirts of Damascus lies one of the holiest sites ... In the Christian neighborhood of Bab Touma, some worry that Christians could be relegated to second-class citizens.

TASS/. Armed groups violated the ceasefire on Monday firing mortar shells at a Christian neighborhood Bab Touma in Syria’s capital of Damascus, SANA news agency reported. A source in police ...

In Bab Touma, the ancient Christian quarter of Damascus, the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church says: "We did not have the experience of Russia or anybody else from the outside world ...