Sources: RT
The Israeli military says it had attacked Iranian military targets in Damascus including the city's international airport in response to a missile attack. 2019-01-21
Russia denies interfering with the site of a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, and says a nine-member Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team currently waiting in Damascus will be allowed to visit on Wednesday. 2018-04-16
A Russian Tu-154 military passenger airplane carrying 92 people including the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from Sochi. The airplane was headed towards Khmeimim, Syria. The Russian Armed Forces are actively involved in the Syrian Civil War. 2016-12-25
Zahran Alloush, founder of Islamist rebel group Jaysh al-Islam (army of Islam), the group's deputy leader, and other officials die in Russian airstrikes on a meeting east of Damascus, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Jaysh al-Islam was one of the opposition groups at the December 10th conference that agreed on principles to guide peace talks, which both Bashar al-Assad and Russia rejected. 2015-12-25
Using social media, Russian investigative bloggers from the Conflict Intelligence Team photo-geolocate three Russian military personnel outside expected air support operations areas — evidence of what the group says may be a broader Russian military role in Syria. 2015-11-9
Two shells hit the Russian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, as hundreds of pro-government supporters rallied outside in support of Russian airstrikes. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the shelling as "a terrorist act." 2015-10-13
One Syrian is killed and nine others injured in mortar shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus. 2013-11-28
Twin suicide bombings in Marjeh Square in Damascus kill at least 14 people and injure 31. [http:--news.ninemsn.com.au-world-2013-06-11-07-02-syria-rebels-converge-on-aleppo-airbase (AFP via NineMSN)]date=July 2019 2013-06-11
At least 42 people are killed and 84 injured after a reported suicide bombing at a Damascus mosque. Senior pro-government Sunni cleric Mohammed al-Buti is amongst those killed. 2013-03-21