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

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

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued, ...

Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' prisons have been well-documented, where thousands died or vanished after being imprisoned ...

Shiite neighborhoods in Damascus commemorate Ashoura quietly after Assad's ouster Shiite pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to ...

This year, after Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive led by Sunni Islamist insurgents, the Shiite neighborhoods of Damascus were subdued. The hotels that were once brimming with ...

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