Sources: BBC
The Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, meets in Damascus with Ahmed al-Sharaa, de facto leader of Syria. 2025-01-10
Rebel forces cut off the strategic M5 Motorway which connects Aleppo to Damascus and also capture the district of Khan al-Asal near Aleppo. 2024-11-28
A day after a Russian sponsored ceasefire with a rebel group agreed a halt of fighting in the last opposition enclave in the capital, Syrian government airplanes and artillery strike rebel-held eastern Damascus suburbs and Ghouta with barrel bombs, killing at least five civilians in the towns of Hamouriya and Zalamka with several case of suffocation from rockets filled with chlorine that were fired at the front lines of Jobar and Ain Terma. 2017-08-19
Damascus's governor says the last group of rebels and civilians have left the city's besieged Barzeh district. 2017-05-29
Syrian authorities name a park in Damascus after the North Korean founding leader Kim Il-Sung. 2015-08-31
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi cuts diplomatic ties with Syria and orders the Egyptian embassy in Damascus to close. 2013-06-15
A bomb explodes in the center of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 13 people. 2013-04-30
At least 16 people are killed and 25 others injured after a car bomb strikes the city of Qatana, 25 km southwest of the capital Damascus. The attack follows a similar blast in front of the Interior Ministry building a day earlier that killed at least five. 2012-12-13
The Syrian Army reportedly fires rockets and artillery barrages at the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Al-Tall. 2012-07-25
The opposition meets in Damascus to call for democracy and to support the "peaceful uprising". 2011-06-28