Sources: BBC
A woman is killed and others are wounded after unidentified armed men open fire with automatic weapons inside a nightclub in Damascus, Syria. 2025-05-5
Germany reopens its embassy in Damascus, Syria after 13 years. 2025-03-20
Israel fires several missiles towards Damascus, Syria, killing three Syrian soldiers. 2022-02-24
Israel strikes multiple Iranian and Syrian military targets outside Damascus and Homs, killing 16 people and wounding 21. 2019-07-1
A suicide bomb attack in Syria's capital Damascus kills at least 10 people. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. 2016-02-9
Syrian rebels fire volleys of mortar shells into Damascus, killing three people and wounding at least 30. Government forces respond with airstrikes into rebel-controlled Douma, just northeast of the capital, and surface-to-surface missiles into Eastern Ghouta and Saqba, that kill at least 35 people and injure many more, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2015-12-13
Syrian army and Hezbollah troops kill over 70 rebel fighters in an ambush in the outskirts of Damascus. 2014-02-26
Syrian government forces and rebel fighters in a besieged Damascus suburb agree to a 48-hour truce that could result in food being allowed in for residents threatened with starvation. 2013-12-26
Syrian state TV reports that the Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi escaped an assassination attempt in the western Damascus suburb of Mazzeh when a bomb explodes near his convoy. 2013-04-29
Turkey says investigators found Russian-made ammunition and military communications equipment in a Syrian passenger plane heading to Damascus from Moscow. Syria accuses Turkey of aircraft piracy, says the plane did not carry the alleged equipment and challenges Turkey to show evidence. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-2012-10-11-us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE88J0X720121011 (Reuters)] [http:--www.aljazeera.com-news-europe-2012-10-20121011182317469327.html (Al Jazeera)] [http:--www.thehindu.com-news-international-turkey-accused-of-air-piracy-article3987113.ece ("The Hindu")] [http:--sana.sy-eng-21-2012-10-12-446649.htm (SANA)]date=August 2019 2012-10-11