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Hundreds killed in attack believed to have been carried out by Assad troops near Damascus

Force needed if Syrian gas attack proved - France

France has said the international community would need to respond with force if allegations that Syrian government forces had carried out a mass chemical attack on civilians proved to be true.

News • 22 Aug 13

Activists said government forces launched a nerve gas attack

Hundreds reported killed in Syria 'gas attack'

Syrian activists have claimed that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad used chemical agents during attacks on rebel-held areas around Damascus.

News • 21 Aug 13

The UN team was due to start its work today

UN chemical weapon inspectors in Syria

A team of UN chemical weapons experts has arrived in Damascus and will start work to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war.

News • 19 Aug 13

More than 100,000 people have been killed since Syria's civil war erupted

62 rebels killed in Syrian 'ambush'

Sixty-two rebel fighters are reported to have been killed in a Syrian army ambush near the town of Adra, east of Damascus.

News • 07 Aug 13

Two bombs exploded in a central Damascus square

At least 14 killed in Damascus bomb attack

At least 14 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

News • 11 Jun 13

Thirteen are dead following the blast at Marjeh Square

Obama says evidence chemical weapons used in Syria

US President Barack Obama has said there was evidence that chemical weapons were used inside Syria but questions remained about their use.

Conflict • 30 Apr 13

People gather at the scene of the explosion in the Mezze district of Damascus

Syrian prime minister survives bomb attack

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki has survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus.

News • 29 Apr 13

The college is in Baramkeh, a central Damascus suburb

15 students die in Damascus mortar strike

Up to 15 Syrian students were killed when rebel mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of Architecture.

World • 29 Mar 13

The players were in the hotel getting ready for training when the mortars exploded outside

Concern raised over al-Qaeda linked group in Syria

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have expressed alarm at the rise of al- Qaeda aligned group al-Nusra front in Syria.

News • 21 Feb 13

A video posted online by activists showed dozens of vehicles on fire

UN says over 60,000 killed in Syria

The United Nations has said that more than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war.

News • 03 Jan 13

Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus

Syrian fighter jets fired at least two rockets at the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus, killing up to 25 people.

News • 17 Dec 12

Syrian soldiers are trying to push rebels from key positions in Damascus

Clinton says Syria resolution will not be easy

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that nobody should have any illusions about how hard it will be to find a solution to the crisis in Syria.

News • 07 Dec 12

Damascus has been rocked by car bombs and air strikes

Further bombing in Damascus as internet still out

Syrian jets bombed rebel-held areas of Damascus today, residents said, and a countrywide internet blackout entered its third day.

News • 01 Dec 12

Fighting halts flights into Damascus

Syrian forces have bombed rebel targets close to the Damascus airport road and a regional airline said the violence had halted international flights to the capital.

News • 30 Nov 12

At least 34 killed in Syria blasts

At least 34 people have been killed in explosions that struck the eastern Damascus district of Jaramana, state television said.

News • 28 Nov 12

Eight children reported killed in Syria attack

Syrian activists have said that at least eight children have been killed in a cluster-bomb attack.

News • 26 Nov 12

Syria rebels say they have captured Damascus base

Syrian rebels have said they had seized the headquarters of an army battalion near the southern gate of Damascus, the nearest military base to the capital reported to have fallen to opposition fighters.

World • 19 Nov 12

Explosions reported in Damascus suburb

A series of bomb blasts are reported to have hit a hilltop district in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

News • 07 Nov 12

Syrian opposition factions attend Qatar talks

Syria's splintered opposition factions have begun talks in Qatar on forging a common front for their war against the army of President Bashar al-Assad.

News • 04 Nov 12

Six killed in Damascus bomb attack

A bomb has killed at least six people near a Shia shrine in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus.

News • 31 Oct 12

Syrian jets bomb Damascus suburb

Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus today in what residents said were the capital's fiercest air raids yet, at the end of what was supposed to be a four-day truce.

News • 30 Oct 12

Rebels have clashed with government forces in several cities, including Aleppo and Hama

Army and rebels break Syrian ceasefire

Syrian warplanes have bombed a building in a Damascus suburb, killing at least eight people in the first airstrike since an internationally mediated cease-fire went into effect, activists have said.

News • 27 Oct 12