Sources: BBC
Two workers are killed, several are injured and others are reported missing when the ceiling of an under-renovation serail in Damascus, Syria, collapses. 2025-10-1
Syrian security forces arrest three former Assad regime officers responsible for the Tadamon massacre, which occurred in south Damascus in 2013. 2025-02-17
Israel launches an airstrike against a Syrian military post in the countryside near Damascus, killing five soldiers and injuring another. 2024-09-27
Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have killed three soldiers close to Damascus. 2022-05-20
Israel launches surface-to-surface missiles at a military installation outside the Syrian capital Damascus overnight, Syrian state TV reports. 2017-12-2
Syrian activists claim that chemical weapon attacks have killed over 600 people in the outskirts of Damascus. 2013-08-21
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 brother of the Syrian parliament speaker is shot and killed by gunmen in the capital Damascus. 2012-11-6
United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan arrives in the Syrian capital Damascus for talks. 2012-07-8
2011 Syrian protests: Social media mobilises the people of Syria for rallies demanding freedom, human rights and the end to emergency law, scheduled for Friday and Saturday in front of the parliament in Damascus and at Syrian embassies internationally. 2011-02-3