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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 a building in Damascus, Syria, kills five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force notably intelligence officer Brigadier General Sadegh Omidzadeh.
2024-01-20

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

A car bomb explodes in the center of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 15 people and wounding 53 others.
2013-04-8

Syrian sources claim that the true objective of the raid was a weapon research center northwest of Damascus and that two people were killed in the action.
2013-01-30

Hungary closes its embassy in Damascus and pulls out all personnel.
2012-12-5

Gunmen detonate roadside bombs as they clash with police in central Damascus.
2012-08-11

Reuters reports that crowds have attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Damascus and the French and Turkish consulates in Latakia.
2011-11-12

Two Reuters journalists arrested on Saturday in Damascus are released.
2011-03-28