Sources: BBC
Qatar begins supplying natural gas to Syria via Jordan to increase production at the Deir Ali power plant in Rif Dimashq Governorate, which will provide electricity to Damascus and other major cities. 2025-03-13
Iran's Supreme National Security Council says that it has decided on a response to the Israeli attack on its diplomatic facilities in Damascus, Syria, which killed several high-ranking members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 2024-04-2
Eleven people die after a fire breaks out in a mall in Damascus, Syria. 2022-03-1
Bahrain announces it will reopen its embassy in Damascus, Syria, a day after the UAE made the same decision. 2018-12-28
One Syrian is killed and nine others injured in mortar shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus. 2013-11-28
At least 61 people are killed and more than 200 injured following a car bombing near Syria's Baath Party headquarters in Damascus. Three other bombings kill 22 people and injure 50 others in the suburb of Barzeh, most of them government soldiers. These are the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since the outbreak of the civil war. 2013-02-21
The head of the international Red Cross, Peter Maurer, arrives in Damascus for a three-day review with the Syrian government of the humanitarian situation. 2012-09-3
2011 Syrian uprising: Two rocket-propelled grenades hit the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party in Damascus amid ongoing anti-government protests. 2011-11-20
Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah is kidnapped by armed men in Damascus. 2011-06-6
Demonstrators defy a government ban in the Syrian capital Damascus and protest for a second day, demanding the release of political prisoners. 2011-03-16