Qara or Kara (Arabic: قارة) is a Syrian city in the An-Nabek District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qara had a population of 12,508 in the 2004 census.

[2] It was the southernmost town in the Jund Hims military district of the region of Syria during the Umayyad Caliphate.

The Sufi scholar Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi visited Qara in 1690, remarking that the village's houses were "very small", confusing this along with the encountered unfriendliness of the inhabitants as a sign of hostility to outsiders.

However, the conditions of Qara were common in villages located in the lawless regions of the Levant at that time.