Car bomb kills two, including a girl, in Damascus suburb of Jaramana

An explosive device planted inside a car detonated in Jaramana, a suburb southeast of the Syrian capital Damascus, on Saturday evening (14 November), killing two people, including a young girl, and wounding at least one person. Syrian state television and the Interior Ministry confirmed the blast; security forces sealed off the area and opened an investigation.

Blast near a battery factory and the Suwayda bus terminal

According to state television, the explosion happened in Jaramana's al-Naseem neighbourhood, near a factory where batteries are produced. The blast also went off close to a garage used by buses and taxis travelling to Suwayda, the mainly Druze province in southern Syria. The Interior Ministry said the dead included a child and that one person was wounded; state television reported two wounded, a slight difference in the initial accounts. No group has claimed responsibility and no motive has been announced.

Second bombing in the same suburb in three days

Jaramana, home to large Druze and Christian communities, has seen sporadic violence since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. On Thursday (12 November), a minibus bombing in the same suburb killed two people and injured at least 13. Authorities have not said whether the two blasts are connected.

(Image: Rudaw, via The Insight International. The scene of the Jaramana explosion.)