Jamraya or Jemraya () is a village in the

Qudsaya District Qudsaya District () is a district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria. Qudsaya District is located to the northwest of the Damascus Governorate and Mount Qasioun, covering the northwestern outskirts of metropolitan Damascus. The admi ...

Rif Dimashq Rif Dimashq Governorate (, lit. "Damascus Countryside Governorate" or "Damascus Suburb") is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in the southwestern part of the country. It borders the governorates of Quneitra, ...

(Damascus Countryside) in southern

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

. It lies 3 miles (5 km) to the northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus city, beyond

Mount Qasioun Mount Qasioun () is a mountain overlooking the city of Damascus, Syria. It has a range of restaurants, from which the whole city can be viewed. Due to its high elevation, several communications and broadcasting networks constructed relay stat ...

, and is now an outlying suburb of greater Damascus.Edmund Sanders and Patrick J. McDonnell
Israel Says Strikes in Syria Target Arms for Hezbollah
(May 5, 2013), ''Los Angeles Times''. It is between

al-Hamah Al-Hamah (; also spelled al-Hameh) is a village on the Barada river in the Qudsaya District of Rif Dimashq (Damascus Countryside) in southern Syria. It is west of the Syrian capital of Damascus city, beyond Mount Qasioun, and is now an outlying ...

and

Qudsaya Qudsaya () is a Syrian city in Rif Dimashq Governorate and the administrative centre of Qudsaya District. The city is located on the western slope of Mount Qasioun, 7 km west of Damascus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, ...

town to the south, and Ashrafiyat al-Wadi to the north. It is about 10 miles (15 km) from the Lebanese border. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,156 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate.

Military facilities

A military research facility of the

Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center The ''Centre d'études et de recherches scientifiques'' (CERS) (Arabic: مركز الدراسات والبحوث العلمية ''markaz aldirasat walbuhuth aleilmia'') is a Syrian government agency that has the goal of advancing and coordinatin ...

is located in Jamraya; weapons are developed and stored here, and the site has been accused of developing chemical weapons.Damascus military facilities 'hit by Israel rockets'
(May 5, 2013), BBC.Alexander Marquardt
Syria Warns Israel of 'All Possibilities' After Strikes
(May 5, 2013), ABC News. The highly secretive military facility was established in the 1980s, when Syria was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

ally.Profile: Syria's top-secret Jamraya research centre
(May 5, 2013), BBC. A parking lot at the research center was the site of a January 31, 2013 Israeli airstrike on missiles parked there. Another Israeli attack on May 5, 2013 destroyed buildings located in a chicken farm a mile from the research center. A
Israeli airstrike on January 12, 2019
damaged a suspected Iranian target in a Syrian military base 1.5 km west of the research center.

References

{{Rif Dimashq Governorate, qudsaya Populated places in Qudsaya District