A car bomb exploded in Damascus' Al Mazzeh district on Saturday, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA, citing a source in the Syrian capital's police command.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast or who the target was.
SANA quoted a source in the Damascus police command as saying, "The explosion heard a short while ago in the Al Mazzeh area resulted from the detonation of a car bomb in the Al-Huda Square, and the damage was limited to material losses."
The explosion occurred in Al Mazzeh area where the Iranian embassy and other foreign embassies are located.