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Israel fires several missiles towards Damascus, Syria, killing three Syrian soldiers.
2022-02-24

Israel kills two members of Islamic Jihad in an aerial attack near Damascus, Syria.
2020-02-23

ISIL releases an execution video showing a prisoner being killed by explosives in Yarmouk Camp, Damascus.
2018-05-1

A report by Amnesty International states that between 5,000 and 13,000 people, most of them civilians, were hanged at the military-run Sednaya Prison near Damascus between September 2011 and December 2015.
2017-02-7

At least eight people are reportedly killed as a car bomb explodes at a checkpoint south of Damascus.
2016-04-25

A car bomb explodes near a police station in the Damascus suburb of Jobar, killing at least eight members of the security forces and injuring civilians.
2013-06-2

Reports claim that elite Syrian military forces shell the town of Darayya just southwest of Damascus.
2013-01-27

Syrian Civil War: Syrian government forces shell areas of eastern Damascus - a stronghold of rebel forces.
2012-10-1

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

Heavy fighting is reported in the capital Damascus overnight with claims of at least five deaths and dozens of injuries.
2012-07-16