Skip to main content
At least 30 lives lost in Damascus double suicide bombing

SYRIAN insurgents marked the sixth anniversary of the start of the anti-government uprising yesterday with a double suicide bombing in the capital.

At least 30 people died in the attacks at the Palace of Justice in Damascus and a restaurant in the al-Rabwah district.

The official Sana news agency said the first bomber, dressed in military uniform, had surrendered his gun and a grenade to guards at the door of the court building.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
ETHNIC STRIFE: Women condemn, yesterday, a video in circulation that allegedly shows a fighter affiliated with the Syrian government holding the braid of a Kurdish female fighter after killing her, in Qamishli, northeastern Syria
Middle East / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)

Druze militiamen ride a motorcycle past the site of an alleged Israeli army strike last week on the main road outside Sweida, Syria, July 25, 2025
Features / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention

syria
Books / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025

ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests