Sources: USA Today
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
Syrian Army troops surround the central prison in Hama after inmates revolted, seizing several guards. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says inmates were protesting against a planned transfer of prisoners from Hama to Sednaya Prison near Damascus. 2016-05-2
A bomb explodes in the center of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 13 people. 2013-04-30
Syrian Army forces kill 30 army deserters in an ambush on the Damascus Airport road. 2013-03-12
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
Local activists report a massacre of over 40 civilians by the Syrian army in the Damascus suburb of Thiabieh. 2012-09-26
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. and Arab League special envoy for the Syrian civil war, arrives in Damascus; fighting goes on in the east of the capital. [http:--main.omanobserver.om-node-109577 ("Oman Observer")]date=August 2019 2012-09-13
Activists vow to begin a "week of breaking the siege" protests in Daraa, with Damascus to join in tomorrow. 2011-05-1