Sources: BBC
Three women are killed and five children are injured in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. 2025-01-10
An Israeli airstrike targeting the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, kills eight members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including Iranian brigadier general Mohammad Reza Zahedi. 2024-04-1
Eleven people die after a fire breaks out in a mall in Damascus, Syria. 2022-03-1
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
Rebel forces take over the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, where at least 25 were killed by airstrikes the day before. Syrian troops and tanks, as well as a number of PFLP-GC fighters, gather outside the northern edge of the area. [http:--www.trust.org-alertnet-news-syrian-rebels-take-control-of-damascus-palestinian-camp- (Reuters)]date=August 2019 2012-12-17
At least 54 people are killed and more than 120 injured by two car bomb explosions in a south-eastern district of Damascus, Syria's capital. [https:--www.bbc.co.uk-news-world-middle-east-20523039 (BBC)] [http:--news.ph.msn.com-top-stories-blasts-kill-54-near-syrian-capital-warplane-downed-3 (AFP via MSN News)]date=April 2020 2012-11-28
A Syrian army general is shot dead in Damascus, according to state media. 2012-02-11
Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah is kidnapped by armed men in Damascus. 2011-06-6
Hundreds of dissidents have been arrested across Syria, including in the town of Daraa and a Damascus suburb, after dozens were killed in weekend protests, activists say. 2011-05-2