Sources: BBC
The first public trial of officials linked to former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad opens in Damascus with Atef Najib, former head of security in Daraa Governorate, the only one present to stand trial. Bashar and his brother Maher are to be tried in absentia. 2026-04-26
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
Four Syrian soldiers are killed during airstrikes in Damascus launched by Israel at an Iranian-linked ammunition depot. 2022-04-27
Jaysh al-Islam Islamist rebels launch a successful counter-attack in the East Ghouta region of rural Damascus, targeting the points they lost to the Syrian government over the course of seven days near the town of Hawsh Dawahra, and recovering all of the lost territories. 2017-10-6
Human Rights Watch issues a report concluding that Syrian government forces were most likely to be responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two suburbs in Damascus on August 21. 2013-09-10
A bomb explodes in the center of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 13 people. 2013-04-30
At least 95 people are killed across Syria according to the Local Coordination Committees, including 46 in Damascus and its suburbs. 2012-11-15
Syrian opposition forces say that over 180 people were killed Thursday, including casualties from aerial bombings of residential neighborhoods in Aleppo and villages near Damascus. 2012-09-20
The regime's forces attack the towns of Rastan and Talbisa, located north of Damascus, storming houses and using tanks and helicopters to cut the towns off from the outside world. 2011-05-29