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Two soldiers are killed during a series of Israeli airstrikes at Damascus International Airport.
2023-01-1

The Israeli military says it had attacked Iranian military targets in Damascus including the city's international airport in response to a missile attack.
2019-01-21

ISIL releases an execution video showing a prisoner being killed by explosives in Yarmouk Camp, Damascus.
2018-05-1

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

A local 15-day ceasefire between Syrian rebels and government forces in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus will be announced shortly.
2015-11-18

Syrian Army forces kill 30 army deserters in an ambush on the Damascus Airport road.
2013-03-12

Clashes between government forces continue around Damascus and Homs, with heavy aerial bombardment by the Syrian Air Force being reported.
2013-02-9

A bomb kills five policemen after Friday prayer outside Rukniyeh mosque in Rukn Eddeen, central Damascus.
2012-09-7

A car bomb attack by unknown people near a Palestinian refugee camp in the Damascene suburb of Sbeineh ("Sabina") kills at least 15 people. AFP says rebels claim the capture of the village of Harem near Idlib on the Turkish border, after a 3-day siege; the government still keeps air supremacy. U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says it is both conflict parties' duty to try to reach peace.
2012-09-2

Syrian forces kill at least 10 people at the entrance of Jdeidet Artouz district of Damascus according to opposition sources.
2012-08-13