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An Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Damascus, Syria, kills five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force notably intelligence officer Brigadier General Sadegh Omidzadeh.
2024-01-20

Bahrain announces it will reopen its embassy in Damascus, Syria, a day after the UAE made the same decision.
2018-12-28

Syrian rebels fire volleys of mortar shells into Damascus, killing three people and wounding at least 30. Government forces respond with airstrikes into rebel-controlled Douma, just northeast of the capital, and surface-to-surface missiles into Eastern Ghouta and Saqba, that kill at least 35 people and injure many more, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
2015-12-13

The Syrian opposition opens its first embassy in Qatar, a day after it was given Damascus's seat at the Arab League.
2013-03-28

At least 61 people are killed and more than 200 injured following a car bombing near Syria's Baath Party headquarters in Damascus. Three other bombings kill 22 people and injure 50 others in the suburb of Barzeh, most of them government soldiers. These are the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since the outbreak of the civil war.
2013-02-21

The head of the international Red Cross, Peter Maurer, arrives in Damascus for a three-day review with the Syrian government of the humanitarian situation.
2012-09-3

United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan arrives in the Syrian capital Damascus for talks.
2012-07-8

The Arab Inter-parliamentary Union, an advisory body to the Arab League, calls for the removal of its monitors in Syria, saying that they are inadvertently helping the government cover up ongoing violence.
2012-01-1

2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian state media report the deaths of at least 40 people in two car bombings in the capital Damascus.
2011-12-23

A Syrian-American blogger who calls herself "Gay Girl in Damascus" and who has become a prominent opposition voice has allegedly been abducted by Syrian security agents.
2011-06-7