Jamraya or Jemraya (Arabic: جمرايا) is a village in the Qudsaya District of Rif Dimashq (Damascus Countryside) in southern Syria.
[1] 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.
[4][6][7] The highly secretive military facility was established in the 1980s, when Syria was a Soviet ally.
Another Israeli attack on May 5, 2013 destroyed buildings located in a chicken farm a mile from the research center.
[9] An Israeli airstrike on January 12, 2019 damaged a suspected Iranian target in a Syrian military base 1.5 km west of the research center.