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A Hezbollah-Syrian Army officer killed in a car bombing in Damascus.
2024-05-25

One person is killed and four others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a police station in Barzeh, Damascus, Syria.
2023-05-10

The Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Damascus Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni is assassinated in a car bombing in the Syrian capital, according to state media.
2020-10-22

Israeli warplanes fire missiles near Damascus, Syria. A pro-opposition war monitor says army positions and Iran-backed militias are targeted, killing 12 fighters. Syria says eight fighters are wounded and Israel intends to "save the armed terrorist organisations which have been collapsing in Idlib and western Aleppo Governorate in front of the strikes of the Syrian Army".
2020-02-6

A car bomb in Afrin kills nine people and wounds over 14 others. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2019-10-31

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

Jaysh al-Islam Islamist rebels launch a successful counter-attack in the East Ghouta region of rural Damascus, targeting the points they lost to the Syrian government over the course of seven days near the town of Hawsh Dawahra, and recovering all of the lost territories.
2017-10-6

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

Two suicide car bombs explode south of Damascus, Syria, near a mosque killing many people.
2013-01-18

Heavy fighting is reported in the Palestinian neighborhoods of southern Damascus between rebels and government forces.
2012-11-5