After eight members of her family, including her husband, were killed in a suicide bombing in a Damascus church, Laure Nasr demanded justice while Syria's minority communities worried about their future.

"I want (Syrian interim President) Ahmed al-Sharaa to personally bring me justice," a distraught Nasr said on Monday as she received mourners at her home.

"Isn't he the president? Are we not a democratic state now?" she said, after Sunday's attack, which came more than six months after Islamist-led forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

Authorities said at least 25 people were killed and more than 60 others wounded in the shooting and suicide bombing in the Saint Elias church in the Syrian capital's Dwelaa district.

They blamed the Islamic State group, which has not yet claimed the attack.

The attacker "entered the house of God and opened fire on us", Nasr, 35, told AFP.

If her husband and brother-in-law had not stopped the man from going deeper into the church, "we would have all died", she said.

President Sharaa has pledged to bring all those involved to justice, emphasising "the........

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