Rawda Square
{{Short description|Square in Damascus, Syria}}
{{For|other locations bearing same name|Rawda (disambiguation){{!}}Rawda}}
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Al-Rawda Square ({{langx|ar|ساحة الروضة}} / ALA-LC: sāḥat ar-Rawḍah) is a square in north-west Damascus. The square is the location of the National Security Building, where the Defence Minister as well as President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law were assassinated on July 18, 2012 during the Syrian civil war.{{cite news |date=18 July 2012 |title=Bomb blast kills Syria defence minister and Assad's brother-in-law |url=https://theprovince.com/news/Damascus+bomb+blast+kills+Syria+defence+minister+Assad+brother/6951908/story.html |access-date=18 July 2012 |newspaper=The Province}}{{Dead url|date=September 2024}}