Damascus News

Jerusalem - After Israel carried out attacks close to Damascus last night, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad warns that Israeli airstrikes are a “declaration of war.” Israel has deployed two Iron Dome missile defense batteries in the north.

Damascus - According to Syrian state television there have been a series of large explosions in Damascus caused by Israeli rocket strikes.

Damascus - Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived an assassination attempt in Damascus this morning in which at least six people were killed by a bomb aimed at Wael al-Halki's convoy in the capital's Mezze district.

Damascus - At least fifteen people were killed, with up to twenty wounded, when mortar shells were fired by Syrian rebels striking a Damascus university.

Damascus - One of Syria's top Sunni authorities was killed today in a suicide bomb blast that struck a Damascus mosque according to Syrian news sources.

Following a proclamation that it was a "sacred duty" for Syrians to join the Syrian army and fight on the side of Assad rumors abound in Damascus that there would be mass military conscription.

With the threat of destruction at the hands of dictators and fundamentalists do the nations of the world have a right and an obligation to protect United Nations World Heritage sites?

Syria's President-for-life Bashar al-Assad may cling to power for a longer period than is being anticipated and speculated.

Damas - As the fighting increases in Syria , with 29 dead in Damascus following a mortar attack, reports are emerging that Syria's foreign ministry's spokesman is defecting to the U.S.

With the ferocious exchanges between the Israeli armed forces and Hamas in Gaza, the equally murderous civil war in Syria seems to have been shifted backstage.