DAMASCUS, Syria — (AP) — Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day Saturday while others opened as usual as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of ...

Insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, overthrew President Bashar Assad’s secular government in early December ending the 54-year Assad family dynasty. Since then ...

Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day Saturday while others opened as usual as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, the first since the ...

the first since the fall of Assad family rule in the war-torn country. Syria’s interim Ministry of Religious Endowments reportedly called for all restaurants, coffee shops and street food stands ...