Damascus terrorist attacks

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In 2003 Islamist terrorists engaged in a series of attacks in Damascus, Syria.

[edit] History of terrorism

[edit] 2004

Three gunmen and one security guard were killed in an attack on the diplomatic quarter of Damascus, damaging a building formally used by the UN, in April 2004.

[edit] 2006

In June 2006 four gunmen and a security guard were killed when Syrian security forces foiled an attack by Islamist militants near the studios of state-run TV. Three gunmen and a Syrian security guard were killed in September 2006 in a foiled attack on the U.S. embassy. Thirteen people were wounded, including two security guards and a Chinese diplomat, police also captured one gunman although he later died of his wounds. Gunmen tossed grenades over the perimeter walls before opening fire with automatic weapons. A car bomb was detonated outside the embassy although a truck bomb filled with pipe bombs and gas cylinders failed to explode.