An explosive device hidden inside a passenger minibus detonated on Thursday in Jaramana, a suburb of the Syrian capital populated by Druze and Christian populations, killing a minimum of two individuals and injuring 13 others, according to state media reports citing the health ministry.
AFP photographs from the scene revealed severe destruction in Jaramana, showing the vehicle's roof torn off, its internal frame shattered, and fragments scattered across the roadway.
Citing an official source, state television broadcast that “according to preliminary information... the explosion in the town of Jaramana was caused by a bomb placed" within the passenger vehicle.
No group immediately stepped forward to take credit for the strike.
Following the overthrow of long-standing President Bashar Al-Assad in December 2024, the newly installed Islamist leadership in Syria has attempted to consolidate power and re-establish public order.
Nevertheless, Damascus and its surrounding municipalities have faced a series of violent incidents directed at security forces and civilian targets since the political transition.
The town of Jaramana previously experienced bouts of sectarian violence during the spring of 2025.
The latest blast follows other recent violent disruptions in the area, including a dual homemade bomb attack last month during European diplomacy that left one person dead and 36 wounded during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Damascus.
Syrian law enforcement later reported the capture of a cell affiliated with the Islamic State believed to be behind those blasts. Macron, marking the first visit by an EU head of state to Syria since Assad's fall in 2024, was not present at his nearby accommodation during the incident.
ISIS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.
Several military offensives, including those backed by the US-led international coalition, have since seen ISIS lose most areas it once controlled, including the loss of their de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria.
However, ISIS sleeper cells remain in the area and continue to carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq.