Syrian President Bashar al-Assad joined Eid al-Fitr prayers at a mosque in third city Homs on Wednesday in a unprecedented public look out of doors the capital for the give up-of-Ramadan holiday.
Massive elements of Homs were once under the manipulate of rebels fighting to overthrow Assad’s regime however considering May also 2014 they have been limited to a single besieged neighbourhood within the town’s outskirts.
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The Al-Safa mosque, where Assad joined worshippers, is in Akrama, a loyalist neighbourhood which has been hit by way of repeated assaults with the aid of the Islamic State organization and its jihadist rival Al-Qaeda.
Kingdom television broadcast pictures of the president in the congregation alongside Islamic Endowments Minister Mohammad Abdel-Sattar Sayyed and Syria’s pinnacle Muslim cleric Ahmad Badredine Hassoun.
Because the civil battle erupted in 2011, Assad has made simplest rare public appearances and nearly all of those have been in Damascus.
