Jamraya
Jamraya or Jemraya is a village in the Qudsaya District of Rif Dimashq in southern Syria. It lies 3 miles to the northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus city, beyond Mount Qasioun, and is now an outlying suburb of greater Damascus. It is between al-Hamah and Qudsaya town to the south, and Ashrafiyat al-Wadi to the north. It is about 10 miles from the Lebanese border. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,156 in the 2004 census.Military facilities
A military research facility of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center is located in Jamraya; weapons are developed and stored here, and the site has been accused of developing chemical weapons. The highly secretive military facility was established in the 1980s, when Syria was a Soviet ally.
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. An damaged a suspected Iranian target in a Syrian military base 1.5 km west of the research center.
