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Watch live as Damascus residents pray at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on the first Friday (13 December) after rebels ousted Bashar al-Assad's regime. Syrians are celebrating the demise of Assad ...
Watch a live view of Damascus, Syria, on Monday (9 December) after rebels toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Russia, a close ally that has propped up the regime for years, said Assad ...
[34] The rebels started encircling the capital after capturing Al-Sanamayn, a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the southern entrance of Damascus. [35] In the Rif Dimashq region, pro-government forces withdrew from the towns of Assal al-Ward, Yabroud, Flitah, Al-Naseriyah and Artouz, while rebels came within 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of Damascus. [36]
Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. As Assad resigned and fled Syria, rebel ...
March 2017 Damascus bombings - A series of terrorist attacks in Damascus killed at least 114 people. Tahrir al-Sham , formerly known as the al-Nusra Front , [ 46 ] and IS claimed responsibility. 15 April 2017 - A car bomb targets a convoy of buses carrying civilian evacuees in rebel-held western Aleppo, killing more than 120 people, mostly ...
On 18 February, targets in Damascus were struck by alleged Israeli missiles from the Golan Heights. [5] The Kafr Sousa neighborhood was struck [ 6 ] near highly guarded Iranian installations. [ 7 ] According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), the strike hit a warehouse used by Iranian and Hezbollah fighters.
(Reuters) - Two civilians have been injured in Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, in the second such attack on the country in a few days.
The Syrian Defence Ministry vowed to respond to the attacks “with full force”. [14] Retaliation was set in motion on the same day, in which the Syrian military carried out rocket and artillery strikes on the opposition-controlled zone of Idlib Governorate , killing at least 24 civilians and injuring 37 others.