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

Eighteen soldiers are killed and 20 others are injured when a bomb explodes on a military bus near Damascus.
2022-10-13

Two bombs attached to a military bus detonate as it passes under Jisr al-Rais bridge in Damascus, killing 14 people. Minutes later, military shellfire kills at least 10 civilians in Ariha, Idlib Governorate.
2021-10-20

Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons and missile depots near Damascus, Syria, kill six foreign nationals, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The headquarters of the Syrian Army's 4th Armoured Division is also hit.
2021-02-15

The Syrian Army and allied militia groups secure the entire length of the strategic M5 Motorway, connecting Damascus and Aleppo, for the first time since 2012.
2020-02-11

Israeli warplanes fire missiles near Damascus, Syria. A pro-opposition war monitor says army positions and Iran-backed militias are targeted, killing 12 fighters. Syria says eight fighters are wounded and Israel intends to "save the armed terrorist organisations which have been collapsing in Idlib and western Aleppo Governorate in front of the strikes of the Syrian Army".
2020-02-6

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

The Syrian Army recaptures all of the towns and villages in the Barada river valley near Damascus from rebel forces.
2017-01-29

The Syrian Army reportedly fires rockets and artillery barrages at the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Al-Tall.
2012-07-25