Sources: USA Today
Rebels take full control of the city of Daraa after agreeing to allow Ba'ath Party officials to leave the city with safe passage to Damascus, and also take full control of the mainly Druze city of Suwayda. 2024-12-6
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
Israel carries out airstrikes near Damascus, Syria, killing four pro-Iranian fighters. 2022-10-27
Eighteen soldiers are killed and 20 others are injured when a bomb explodes on a military bus near Damascus. 2022-10-13
The Syrian Army declares that the Eastern Ghouta towns of Arbin, Zamalka, Jobar, and Ein Tarma are vacated of rebel fighters. Except for the town of Douma, which is facing an ultimatum, the government controls most of the area around the capital Damascus. 2018-03-31
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
Damascus's governor says the last group of rebels and civilians have left the city's besieged Barzeh district. 2017-05-29
A report by Amnesty International states that between 5,000 and 13,000 people, most of them civilians, were hanged at the military-run Sednaya Prison near Damascus between September 2011 and December 2015. 2017-02-7
Syrian sources claim that the true objective of the raid was a weapon research center northwest of Damascus and that two people were killed in the action. 2013-01-30
At least 200 people are killed in violence throughout the country according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria. The toll is highest in Aleppo and the capital Damascus, where a total of 94 are killed. Dozens of casualties are reported from Idlib, Daraa and Homs as well. 2012-07-26