A detonation of two explosive devices targeting a military bus in Damascus on Wednesday morning killed at least 13 people, according to the Syrian media, in the bloodiest toll in years.

The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that "a terrorist detonated with two explosive devices during the passage of an overnight bus at the President Bridge in Damascus," noting that "the initial outcome of the terrorist bombing was 13 martyrs and three wounded."

SANA news agency broadcast pictures showing a burning bus, and stated that engineering units had dismantled "a third device that had been planted in the place where the explosion occurred."

During the years of the conflict that has been going on for more than ten years, Damascus witnessed huge explosions that resulted in dozens of deaths, most of which were claimed by militant organizations, including a bombing claimed by Daesh in March 2017, which targeted the Justice Palace, killing more than 30 people.

In the same month, it was preceded by two bombings, claimed by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), which targeted a neighborhood in Old Damascus, killing more than seventy people, most of whom were Iraqi Shiite pilgrims.

Since 2019, it has become rare for Damascus to witness similar huge explosions, after government forces managed, since 2018, to control neighborhoods in the capital that were under the control of Daesh, as well as the Eastern Ghouta, which for years constituted the most prominent stronghold of the opposition factions near Damascus.

Although the massive bombings have largely decreased in Damascus, the Syrian capital is still witnessing periodically limited explosions with improvised explosive devices.

The conflict in Syria, since its outbreak in 2011, has killed about half a million people, caused massive damage to infrastructure, and caused the displacement and displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside the country.