Rob, Kill and Burn: Massacre in Damascus
Youssef Ben Ismail, 6 March 2025
In the summer of 1860, an unprecedented wave of sectarian violence swept across Greater Syria. Druze militias sacked Maronite Christian villages, killing eleven thousand people. Muslim mobs killed more than a tenth of Damascus’s Christian population in a matter of days. Churches and monasteries were burned to the ground, monks and priests were slaughtered, Christian women were...
