Feature: Christmas lights return to Syrian village after years of war

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-12-21

by Hummam Sheikh Ali AL-QUNAIYAH, Syria, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- As night fell over the small village of Al-Quniyah in Syria's northwestern Idlib countryside, the sound of drums echoed through narrow streets for the first time in years, mingling with children's voices singing Christmas songs beneath a brightly lit tree. Fireworks briefly lit up the sky above the Latin Monastery of Saint Joseph, where villagers gathered to inaugurate a Nativity......

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