Jamraya or Jemraya ( ar, جمرايا) is a village in the

Qudsaya District Qudsaya District ( ar-at, منطقة قدسيا, mantiqah, manṭiqat Qudsaya) is a Districts of Syria, district of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in southern Syria. Qudsaya District is located to the northwest of the Damascus Governorate and Mount ...

Rif Dimashq Rif Dimashq Governorate ( ar, محافظة ريف دمشق, ', literally, the "Governorate of the Countryside of Damascus", Damascus Suburb) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in the southwestern part of the c ...

(Damascus Countryside) in southern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

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

Mount Qasioun Mount Qasioun ( ar, جَبَل قَاسِيُون, transliterated as Jabal Qāsiyūn) is a mountain overlooking the city of Damascus, Syria. It has a range of restaurants, from which the whole city can be viewed. As the city has expanded over the ...

, 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 ( ar, الهامة; also spelled al-Hameh) is a village on the Barada river in the Qudsaya District of Rif Dimashq Governorate, Rif Dimashq (Damascus Countryside) in southern Syria. It is west of the Syrian capital of Damascus, Damascus c ...

and

Qudsaya Qudsaya ( ar, قدسيا, Qudsayā) 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 Centr ...

town to the south, and

Ashrafiyat al-Wadi Ashrafiyat al-Wadi ( ar, أشرفية الوادي) is a village adjacent to the town of Qudsaya and just north of the Mezzeh district of Damascus in Syria. The village is administratively part of the Qudsaya District of the Rif Dimashq Governora ...

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 Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), better known by its French name ''Centre D'Etudes et de Recherches Scientifiques'' (''CERS''), is a Syrian government agency that has the goal of advancing and coordinating scientific activities i ...

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 Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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