Sources: BBC
Sixteen people are killed and 15 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes against residential buildings in Damascus, Syria. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad announces that a number of its militants are among the fatalities. 2024-11-14
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
Israel launches a series of airstrikes on Damascus and Tartus, Syria, killing three soldiers and injuring three others. 2022-08-15
Eleven people die after a fire breaks out in a mall in Damascus, Syria. 2022-03-1
The Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Damascus Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni is assassinated in a car bombing in the Syrian capital, according to state media. 2020-10-22
Israel kills two members of Islamic Jihad in an aerial attack near Damascus, Syria. 2020-02-23
Syrian army and Hezbollah troops kill over 70 rebel fighters in an ambush in the outskirts of Damascus. 2014-02-26
President Bashar al-Assad declares that a state of war exists in Syria as fighting spills into Damascus. 2012-06-27
2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian state media report the deaths of at least 40 people in two car bombings in the capital Damascus. 2011-12-23
Plain-clothes police break up a demonstration of at least 200 people in the Syrian capital Damascus after Friday prayers 2011-03-18