JARAMANA, Syria\u00a0\u2014\u00a0An explosion in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least one person and wounded several others, according to Syrian state media and an Associated Press journalist at the scene.<\/p>\n
Syrian state television cited an unnamed security official as saying the explosion in Jaramana was caused by an explosive device planted in a minivan taxi. Syria\u2019s Health Ministry said at least seven people were wounded. An AP journalist at the scene of the attack saw one body pulled from the wreckage. <\/p>\n
Residents and rescue workers rushed to the scene. Witnesses told the AP that there were passengers inside the vehicle that exploded, and that the blast rattled the busy commercial street.<\/p>\n
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n
Jaramana, which is home to a large population of the Druze religious minority, has faced tensions between some members of the community and Sunni Muslim Syrians supportive of the country\u2019s current Islamist-led government.<\/p>\n
Tensions flared in April 2025, when at least 10 people were killed in sectarian clashes between Druze gunmen and pro-government fighters.<\/p>\n
The apparent bombing attack, the third in just over a month, is the latest of several challenges that interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has faced since coming to power in December 2024 after leading an insurgency that overthrew the Assad dynasty and ended its half-century rule. <\/p>\n
In early July, two explosions wounded at least 18 people during French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s landmark visit to Syria. Explosive devices were placed in a garbage bin and a parked car.<\/p>\n
Al-Sharaa has pushed to assert full control over Syria, appeal to minorities skeptical of his Islamist-led rule and win the support of Western governments who were concerned about his past leadership of the formerly al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group. His government has promised political and economic reform after decades of autocratic rule under the Assad family.<\/p>\n
Shaheen writes for the Associated Press. AP journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JARAMANA, Syria\u00a0\u2014\u00a0An explosion in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least one person and wounded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[66867,84,56724,1985,21860,4432,4434,66828,396,14255,8672,61839,95,6879,66868],"class_list":["post-239141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-ap-journalist","tag-attack","tag-damascus-suburb","tag-explosion","tag-explosive-device","tag-french-president-emmanuel-macron","tag-group","tag-jaramana","tag-people","tag-person","tag-scene","tag-several-other","tag-syria","tag-tension","tag-western-government"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117050868108649509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}