A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

It was unclear why the tree was burned, and who was behind it ... the Alawite sect have also been attacked. Members of the Assad family are Alawites, and those in the sect were historically ...

News of the burning Christmas tree generated headlines around the world as the Islamist faction that toppled ex-President ...

Protests erupted in Christian neighborhoods of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria following a lightning rebel offensive in November has shaken Assad-ally ...

Assad and his family were forced to flee to Russia ... On Tuesday, protests broke out in the country over the burning of a ...

In the backyard, boys and men chopped down trees to cart away for firewood ... in the home where she lived with her family opposite the homes of the Assad family in Qardahah.

After the fall of Assad, Christians hold their breath this festive season as they wait and see whether promises of protection ...

"That night, and under the rain, they set up a new tree in the same spot ... efforts to build a cohesive state after 53 years of Assad family rule. The need for a cohesive and discipled Syrian ...

“But more broadly you will have seen that we have very tough sanctions in place against the Assad family and the former ... fighters burned down a Christmas tree in the centre of the country ...

Armed militias led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, an al Qaeda offshoot, took over the country in early December and forced the president to flee, ending five decades of the Assad family's rule.