Tag: Damascus

Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, has met Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, in Damascus, a day after an air strike killed...

Clashes between Syrian government forces and opposition fighters have continued around the capital, as rebels declared Damascus International Airport a “legitimate target”. Activists told Al...

Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in neighbouring Syria’s civil war battled on Wednesday in the streets of a northern Lebanese city where two days...

At least 34 people have been killed and many injured by two car bomb explosions in a south-eastern district of Syria’s capital, Damascus, state...

At least 34 people have been killed and many injured by two car bomb explosions Syria's capital district, Syrian media reported. According to the...

Syrian rebels have carried out fresh attacks on government facilities and strongholds in the capital, Damascus. Mortar shells landed in Mezzeh 86, an Alawite...

A car bomb blast shook the Damascus region early Tuesday, a day after nearly 250 people died in fighting and bombings in Syria’s worst...

Damascus shook with loud explosions Monday as Syrian warplanes reportedly launched their heaviest air strikes yet after a failed bid to halt the country's...

Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Wednesday that Syria and "most" rebel chiefs have agreed to a truce during this week's Muslim holiday, boosting hopes...

A car bomb exploded outside a police station in a Christian quarter of Damascus on Sunday, killing 10 people, monitors said, while a similar...

Fighting raged in a strategic district of Syria’s commercial capital Aleppo on Saturday, the third day of a rebel offensive to seize the city,...

Pro-government militiamen executed at least 16 civilians in their homes in Damascus before dawn on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Militiamen burst...

Syrian troops on Sunday fought rebel fighters in the country’s two main cities Damascus and Aleppo, as Iran acknowledged for the first time it...

Twin bombs exploded near a tightly guarded government compound in the heart of Damascus on Sunday, state media said, as new international peace envoy...

A car exploded during a funeral in a southeastern suburb of Damascus on Tuesday killing several people, Syrian state television reported without giving further...

Government forces stepped up blistering attacks in Damascus and Aleppo on Wednesday after the regime said it was ready to discuss President Bashar al-Assad’s...

A massive bomb blast rocked the heart of Damascus on Wednesday as pressure mounted on the regime, with world's largest pan-Islamic bloc poised to...