The interior ministry says a man affiliated with IS entered a church and opened fire before blowing himself up.

The attack on a Greek Orthodox service made clear the challenges facing Syria’s new government in a country long pitted by sectarian divides.

A suicide bomber opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church in Syria during Sunday mass. As many as 22 worshippers have been killed and another 63 injured in the ‘terrorist attack’ in Damascus.