Sources: AP via ABC News
At least 23 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 63 others are injured when at least one alleged Islamic State suicide attacker opens fire and detonates an explosive device inside the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria. 2025-06-22
Three women are killed and five children are injured in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. 2025-01-10
Israel launches a series of airstrikes on Damascus and Tartus, Syria, killing three soldiers and injuring three others. 2022-08-15
Allegedly Israeli fighter jets strike a suspected Hezbollah weapons convoy near Damascus, Syria. 2016-11-30
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, two suicide bombings occur near the Sayyidah Zaynab shrine in a Damascus suburb, killing at least 20 people. 2016-06-11
Rebel forces seize parts of the Sheikh Suleiman army base near Aleppo after weeks of heavy fighting. Ground clashes continue in the suburbs of Damascus as the government carries out further air raids against opposition forces. 2012-12-10
Renewed violence is reported in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Idlib, as Syrian state television reports the death of one of its reporters. 2012-08-12
Heavy fighting is reported in the capital Damascus overnight with claims of at least five deaths and dozens of injuries. 2012-07-16
Protesters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the 2011 Syrian uprising break into the United States embassy in Damascus and try to break into the French embassy. 2011-07-11
Hundreds of people stage a rare protest in the Syrian capital Damascus calling for greater freedoms and the release of political prisoners. 2011-03-15