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The UK-based SOHR says an Israeli missile attack near Damascus killed three foreigners, believed to be Iranians.
2019-12-23

ISIL releases an execution video showing a prisoner being killed by explosives in Yarmouk Camp, Damascus.
2018-05-1

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

Damascus's governor says the last group of rebels and civilians have left the city's besieged Barzeh district.
2017-05-29

ISIL claims to have shot down a Syrian Arab Air Force MiG-23, southeast of Damascus, and captured its pilot. Amaq News Agency, which supports ISIL, gave the pilot’s name as Azzam Eid, from Hama. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it was not clear whether the plane had been shot down or crashed because of mechanical failure.
2016-04-23

Syrian Armed Forces fire OTR-21 Tochka missiles at Baraza region of Damascus.
2013-04-7

Syrian Civil War: Syrian government forces shell areas of eastern Damascus - a stronghold of rebel forces.
2012-10-1

71 people are killed through Syria by mid-day, including dozens in a massacre perpetrated by the Syrian army in the Damascus suburbs.
2012-08-2

At least 200 people are killed in violence throughout the country according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria. The toll is highest in Aleppo and the capital Damascus, where a total of 94 are killed. Dozens of casualties are reported from Idlib, Daraa and Homs as well.
2012-07-26

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