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Rawda Square

Damascus, Syria

Al-Rawda Square (/ ALA-LC: sāḥat ar-Rawḍah) is a square in north-west Damascus. The square is the location of the National Security Building, where the Defence Minister as well as President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law were assassinated on July 18, 2012 during the Syrian civil war.

Square data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other squares in Syria