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Damascus is surrounded by the Ghouta, irrigated farmland where many vegetables, cereals, and fruits have been farmed since ancient times. (wikipedia.org)
Meanwhile Syrian state media denied rebel gains in Jobar and said the army had pushed back rebels from the neighbourhood and other parts of the Ghouta area of eastern Damascus. (telegraph.co.uk)
Now that Aleppo has fallen to President Bashar Assad's forces, people in Eastern Ghouta, a heavily populated, rebel-held Syrian suburb of regime-stronghold Damascus, are wondering if they will be next. (businessinsider.com)
People are very afraid of obligatory evacuation, like what happened in other parts of the Damascus suburbs and now Aleppo," said Tariq, an English teacher in Douma, the urban capital of Eastern Ghouta, who asked that his real name not be used for security reasons. (businessinsider.com)
Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute wrote this week that "after Aleppo it seems most likely that pro-regime forces will switch their focus to the country's capital [Damascus], especially to Eastern Ghouta. (businessinsider.com)
Smoke billows following a regime air strike on the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, late on Feb. 23, 2018. (militarytimes.com)
Syrian opposition activists say Russian warplanes are taking part in bombarding Damascus suburbs known as eastern Ghouta, where many people are hiding in underground shelters with little food and medical supplies amid a tight government siege. (militarytimes.com)
A large amount of weapons and munition bound to the al-Qaida-linked rebels were confiscated near the rebel-held Ghouta countryside, east of Damascus, according to the Syrian authorities. (xinhuanet.com)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Nov. 18 a local 15-day ceasefire between Syrian rebels and government forces in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus would be announced "in the coming hours. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Smoke is seen rising from Hajar al-Aswad area, south of Damascus, Syria, on April 22, 2018, as a result of the Syrian shelling and airstrikes on positions of the Islamic State (IS) in that area. (xinhuanet.com)
Confiscated ammo boxes are seen on the ground in a military base in Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 21, 2018. (xinhuanet.com)
14 June, 2018, Damascus, Syria - With support from the World Health Organization (WHO), Al Moadamya primary health care centre in rural Damascus, Syria, has reopened after extensive rehabilitation made possible by a generous donation from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID). (who.int)

The FSA has proven itself capable of moving and concentrating hundreds of soldiers in the southern and eastern outskirts of Damascus to mount individual operations, and they are apparently relatively well-equipped with heavier weapons like technicals, mortars and MANPADS and various anti-tank devices, with enough ammunition to sustain continuous combat. (smallwarsjournal.com)
The Israeli regime targets with airstrikes the Damascus International Airport and the capital city's outskirts in south. (presstv.ir)
The infantry units of the Syrian army are advancing in the battle against IS in Hajar al-Aswad area in southern Damascus from several directions, capturing on the outskirts of that area, according to the report. (xinhuanet.com)
As well as the role of London, the project is the first to consider in detail the contribution made by the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque, a shrine on the outskirts of Damascus, to the forging of modern Shii identities and new forms of socio-political activism. (lu.se)

Fighting has broken out in Damascus as Syrian rebels clashed with President Bashar al-Assad's forces, seeking to break through to the heart of the capital. (telegraph.co.uk)
While much of central Damascus remains unaffected, the suburbs are the sight of an ongoing battle of attrition between government forces and rebels of varying ideologies. (worldtravelguide.net)
Syrian government forces reasserted control of Damascus suburbs yesterday after beating back rebels at the capital's gates as diplomatic pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad at the United Nations. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
In the Damascus battles, an activist said armed defectors mounted scattered attacks on government troops who advanced through the district of Saqba, held by rebels just days earlier. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Syrian rebels fired dozens of mortar bombs into central Damascus on Monday, hitting a high-security area within a kilometre (less than a mile) of President Bashar al-Assad's residence, residents and a security source said. (worldbulletin.net)
Government troops retook control of the Damascus neighbourhood of Mezzeh on Sunday and executed at least 20 unarmed men who they suspected of aiding rebels, opposition activists in the district said. (com.pk)
Rebels were driven from Mezzeh, the diplomatic district of Damascus, residents and opposition activists said, and more than 1,000 government troops and allied militiamen poured into the area, backed by armoured vehicles, tanks and bulldozers. (com.pk)
While the rebels have wrested much of northern Syria from the regime in the past year, the government hold on Damascus is firm and regime forces have been on the offensive recently in the capital's suburbs and in the countryside near the border with Lebanon. (heraldnet.com)
The rebels tapped lightly at Damascus at first, to see if it was hollow, and they found that it was so the FSA tapped harder, and it became apparent that Damascus was not just hollow, but brittle too. (smallwarsjournal.com)
He embedded with Syrian rebels and entered Damascus in "a long black gown [and] full-face veil. (thebrowser.com)

On the battlefront, activists in eastern districts of Damascus said troops fired in the air as they advanced beyond areas from which the defector Free Syrian Army withdrew, capping three days of fighting that activists said killed at least 100 people in Damascus suburbs and in raids around the central city of Homs. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Activists said 11 were killed and dozens were wounded in clashes in Homs and Damascus' suburbs, according to Anatolian news agency. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
In the belt of suburbs to the south and east of Damascus, the FSA has been making gains for weeks. (smallwarsjournal.com)
BEIRUT - A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and dozens wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to 500, as the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria. (militarytimes.com)

He claimed that the armed group that assassinated him had burned his house in the Damascus suburb of Qudsia so as not to leave traces after stealing documents from his home. (ynetnews.com)
Recent video from Damascus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EfFKGfpwLg&feature=youtu.be) indicates that the suburb of Saeyda Zainab has been occupied by the FSA. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Saeyda Zainab is to the East of the main highway to the south of Damascus, and the FSA-held suburb of Darayya is immediately to the West, so it is logical to assume that if a major FSA offensive is going on in Damascus currently, the area of Sbeneh and the M4/M5 highway, between Saeyda Zainab and Darayya, will be a target of the FSA. (smallwarsjournal.com)
In the capital Damascus, troops overran a suburb yesterday killing at least 35 people, mostly unarmed civilians, residents and activist organisations said. (dailymail.co.uk)

The strongest defense of the practice came from a Christian living in the heart of the Islamic empire, John of Damascus. (christianitytoday.com)
Not available yet at LUB: Vol. 5: The Eastern Fathers from the Counci of Chalcedon (451) to John of Damascus († 750). (lu.se)

Syrian air defense units have managed to intercept and bring down most of the missiles launched by the Israeli military at various targets in the vicinity of the Arab country's capital city of Damascus. (presstv.ir)

The Barada River flows through Damascus. (wikipedia.org)
Damascus was built in a strategic site on a plateau 680 m (2,230 ft) above sea level and about 80 km (50 mi) inland from the Mediterranean, sheltered by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, supplied with water by the Barada River, and at a crossroads between trade routes: the north-south route connecting Egypt with Asia Minor, and the east-west cross-desert route connecting Lebanon with the Euphrates river valley. (wikipedia.org)
Maps of Roman Syria indicate that the Barada river emptied into a lake of some size east of Damascus. (wikipedia.org)
The rooms are sumptuously decorated and have great views over Damascus and the Barada River. (worldtravelguide.net)

Will Syria's Assad Benefit From the Damascus Drought? (newsweek.com)
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heart of the heavily defended capital Monday, state media said, laying bare the vulnerability of President Bashar Assad's regime. (heraldnet.com)
Syria's official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles from the direction of the north of the occupied Palestinian territories at some targets near Damascus at about 2 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) on Monday, but Syrian air defenses could bring down most of the projectiles. (presstv.ir)

The centre serves more than 3800 people in the area, including almost 1800 people displaced from other parts of Rural Damascus. (who.int)

The Syrian army is advancing in the battles against the IS in southern Damascus, Syrian SANA news agency reported on Sunday. (xinhuanet.com)

A day later, a Syrian army colonel was killed in Damascus, and five days after that a bomb killed an official from the Electricity Ministry. (heraldnet.com)
The first reports about a major operation by the Free Syrian Army in the capital city of Syria, Damascus are currently spreading throughout social media sources, with a lot of hype. (smallwarsjournal.com)

Assad's forces have retained control of central Damascus and most other Syrian cities, while losing swathes of territory elsewhere, especially in the north and east. (worldbulletin.net)
In Barzeh, members of the Syrian army's Fourth Division under the command of President Bashar al-Assad's brother executed several young men during an operation to regain control of the northern Damascus district, a witness and activists said. (com.pk)
The bombardments in Damascus and Deir al-Zor were some of the fiercest yet and showed Assad's determination to avenge the bomb attack, the most spectacular blow in a 16-month-old uprising against four decades of rule by the Assad family. (com.pk)
Several regional powers, betting on the demise of President Bashar Assad's regime, suspended diplomatic ties with Damascus. (arabnews.com)

A large offensive on Damascus would not be possible without links to and support from rebel brigades in the North of the country, and to the world outside Syria. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Finally, the FSA's approach to Damascus has many parallels with Operation Mermaid Dawn, the rebel offensive on the city of Tripoli that overthrew the Qaddafi government in the Libyan Civil War during August 2011. (smallwarsjournal.com)

Saul was brought to Damascus, lodged at Juda's in the Via Recta (today Souk el-Taouil), was baptized by Ananias (who is thought to have been the first Bishop of Damascus), preached Christ, and was obliged to flee by night to Arabia ( Acts 9:3 sqq. (catholic.org)
Aernie and Hartley suggest that Paul's experience of the glorified Christ on the Damascus road is in fact "a proleptic day of the Lord" (p. 88, italics in original). (logos.com)

Earlier, the state-run and Arabic-language al-Ikhbariyah Syria television news channel reported that two loud explosions were heard across Damascus after the Israeli military fired several missiles towards Syrian military positions in the countryside around the capital. (presstv.ir)

I don't want to give people false hopes but I think if street fighting reaches central Damascus, the regime will not be able to quell it this time. (telegraph.co.uk)

Syrian children walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the Syrian capital Damascus on November 17, 2015. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Government troops retook control of the Damascus neighbourhood of Mezzeh and Barzeh. (com.pk)
Syrian troops have driven rebel fighters out of two districts of Damascus a week after the insurgents launched a major assault on the capital. (com.pk)

Two buses are parked next to each other close to the Umayyad Mosque compound in the center of Old Damascus. (jpost.com)
Last month, a suicide bombing at a Damascus mosque killed Sheik Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, a leading Sunni Muslim preacher and outspoken supporter of Assad. (heraldnet.com)

DAMASCUS: Damascus and parallel Libyan authorities opposed to the weak UN-recognized government in Tripoli agreed Sunday to exchange diplomatic missions and confront Turkish "interference," state media said. (arabnews.com)
Muallem said diplomatic missions would be reopened in Damascus and the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, controlled by Haftar's forces. (arabnews.com)

Liwa al-Islam, an Islamist rebel group whose name means "The Brigade of Islam", said in a statement on its Facebook page that it "targeted the cell called the crisis control room in the capital of Damascus. (ynetnews.com)
Damascus is one of the world's oldest cities, first mentioned in the Bible at the time of Abraham (Genesis 14:15) and still thriving today as the capital of modern Syria. (icr.org)
Syrian air defenses have engaged incoming "hostile targets" in the capital city of Damascus, state media reported. (rt.com)

The range has peaks of over 10,000 ft (3,000 m) and blocks precipitation from the Mediterranean sea, so the region of Damascus is sometimes subject to droughts. (wikipedia.org)
During the winter period, Damascus can register 6.0 mm precipitation, while Moscow have an average of 12.0 mm rain level. (edreams.com)

The city is also known as aš-Šām by the citizens of Damascus, of Syria and other Arab neighbors and Turkey (eş-Şam). (wikipedia.org)
He was born John Monsur, into a wealthy Arab-Christian family of Damascus. (christianitytoday.com)

A double bomb attack targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Damascus killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 more who were going to pray at a nearby shrine, the Iraqi foreign ministry said. (newsweek.com)
The pilgrims were due to pray at the cemetery after visiting the Sayeda Zeinab shrine just outside Damascus, he said. (newsweek.com)

Damascus came under an apparent missile strike late on Monday. (rt.com)

The second blast went off some 10 minutes after the first, inflicting casualties on civil defense workers who had gathered to tend to the casualties, the Damascus correspondent for al-Manar told the station by phone. (newsweek.com)

The attack took place at a bus station where the pilgrims had been brought to visit the nearby Bab al-Saghir cemetery, named after one of the seven gates of the Old City of Damascus. (newsweek.com)
Thank you for volunteering at Damascus Cemetery . (findagrave.com)
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In 2001-2002, all of the remains from the Friends Burying Ground, Lot 17, next to the Damascus Friends Church were moved from that cemetery and re-interred in this cemetery. (findagrave.com)
The cemetery is located in Butler Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, and is # 2040 (Damascus Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society. (findagrave.com)
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1807413 (Damascus Cemetery). (findagrave.com)

Despite popular belief, Saul did not become Paul on the road to Damascus. (logos.com)

Then, as now, Damascus was the chief commercial emporium for the nomad Arabs. (catholic.org)

Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām (الشَّام) and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" (مَدِيْنَةُ الْيَاسْمِينِ Madīnat al-Yāsmīn), Damascus is a major cultural (wikipedia.org)
As of September 2019[update], eight years into the Syrian civil war, Damascus was named the least livable city out of 140 global cities in the Global Liveability Ranking. (wikipedia.org)
The old city of Damascus, enclosed by the city walls, lies on the south bank of the river Barada which is almost dry (3 cm (1 in) left). (wikipedia.org)
Until 2011, Damascus was one of the jewels of the Middle East, a city famous for friendly locals, mediaeval architecture and a straggle of bazaars that could have sprung fully formed from the pages of Arabian Nights . (worldtravelguide.net)
The Cham Palace, located right in the heart of the city, is one of the oldest luxury hotels in Damascus. (worldtravelguide.net)
For many years now the best budget option in Damascus, the Sultan is popular with travellers for its excellent location near the old city, its friendly and helpful staff and the basic, but clean rooms with an unchanged motel-style1960s décor. (worldtravelguide.net)
Restoration in Cairo and Beirut Although Old Damascus was included on UNESCO's World Heritage Site list in 1975, only now has the turn come for restoration and beautification work inside the ancient walled city, including the long deserted and neglected Jewish Quarter. (jpost.com)
After the destruction of the Nabatean Kingdom of Petra by Trajan, Damascus became a Roman city. (catholic.org)

Our mission is to connect residents in your area with professional carpenters in Damascus. (networx.com)
Adapted from "A History of Damascus" by Louis Hall with contributions from local residents. (hmdb.org)

High-profile American statesmen may go to Damascus, but not-at least not yet-an ambassador. (thenation.com)

After years of poor maintenance and oblivion, the Harat al- Yahoud, the Jewish Quarter of Damascus, is coming back to life. (jpost.com)
About 300 years ago a real vizier may have actually lived or spent some time in this spectacular building, one of 24 houses in the quarter of Damascus which belonged to the influential Jewish Farhi family. (jpost.com)
In 2008 Lucien and Joyce Gubbay, British Jews of Syrian origin, visited Damascus and wrote that "the Jewish Quarter of Damascus is in ruins and sparsely populated. (jpost.com)
Assad seems desperate and Assad might do something real stupid leading to the destruction of Damascus like the Jewish prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 17:1) has stated. (danielpipes.org)

In the time of St. Paul there were in Damascus about 50,000 Jews. (catholic.org)
That is, Paul had a foretaste of the final Day on the Damascus road. (logos.com)

Syria hosts a number of Iranian military advisers, who have been invited by Damascus to help the country in its fight against international terrorism. (rt.com)

It remains to be seen whether or not President Assad and his generals can organize a successful defense of the majority of Damascus. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Get useful information about Damascus and Moscow to organize your journey. (edreams.com)

People inspect the damage at the site of an attack by two suicide bombers in Damascus, Syria March 11. (newsweek.com)

Which airports have flights between Damascus and Moscow? (edreams.com)

Situated in southwestern Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area. (wikipedia.org)

I had a Damascus moment this year at the opening of Parliament when Speaker Baleka Mbete callously, coldly and clinically refused to allow Parliament to bow their heads to show that they feel the pain of the families of the 94 who had died because the government looked the other way. (iol.co.za)

Nestled among the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range 80 kilometres (50 mi) inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau 680 metres (2,230 ft) above sea level, Damascus experiences an arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. (wikipedia.org)
A delegation representing eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar met Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (picture) in Damascus. (arabnews.com)

With past visits by special envoy George Mitchell, Under Secretary of State William Burns and a stream of other officials, the presidential palace has been busily receiving guests at its perch above Damascus-and that's only the Americans. (thenation.com)

In early May Senate Republicans blocked a motion to confirm career foreign service officer Robert Ford as the first American envoy in Damascus in five years, since Margaret Scobey was recalled to protest presumed Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. (thenation.com)

While it is said that the free army is preparing for a battle with al-Assad forces in Damascus, some sources connected to the army said the president changed his military chief in order to avert a possible coup. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
The situation in Damascus is normal, but the security forces are pursuing the remnants of the terrorists in some streets," it said. (com.pk)

That such a state of affairs exists is made even more tragic by the fact that, in its pre-war days, Damascus was being described as 'the new Marrakesh' thanks to its atmospheric alleys and the centuries of history. (worldtravelguide.net)

In this file picture, missiles rise into the sky as the Israel military is carrying out a strike against military sites in Damascus, Syria. (presstv.ir)

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