Sources: Reuters
A Hezbollah-Syrian Army officer killed in a car bombing in Damascus.2024-05-25
The UK-based SOHR says an Israeli missile attack near Damascus killed three foreigners, believed to be Iranians. 2019-12-23
A car bomb and shellfire hit Marjeh Square in Damascus, Syria, killing two people and injure 14 others. 2018-05-9
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that the Al-Nusra Front as well as other insurgents have captured the village of Tel el-Ais in a strategic position overlooking the highway between Aleppo and Damascus. 2016-04-2
Syrian rebels fire volleys of mortar shells into Damascus, killing three people and wounding at least 30. Government forces respond with airstrikes into rebel-controlled Douma, just northeast of the capital, and surface-to-surface missiles into Eastern Ghouta and Saqba, that kill at least 35 people and injure many more, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2015-12-13
Human Rights Watch issues a report concluding that Syrian government forces were most likely to be responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two suburbs in Damascus on August 21. 2013-09-10
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
Syrian civil war: Rebels claim control of the strategic town of Maarrat al-Nu'man on the main road linking Damascus to Aleppo. 2012-10-10
Syrian forces kill at least 10 people at the entrance of Jdeidet Artouz district of Damascus according to opposition sources. 2012-08-13
Hundreds of dissidents have been arrested across Syria, including in the town of Daraa and a Damascus suburb, after dozens were killed in weekend protests, activists say. 2011-05-2