Kawkab () is a Syrian village in the Qatana District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. Kawkab is Arabic for "star". According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kawkab had a population of 1,188 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
History In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as a village, located in Wady 'el-Ajam, between Damascus and the Hauran.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 148
On 30 September, 1918 Kawkab was the site of the World War I successful "Charge at Kaukab" of the Australian 4th and 12th Light Horse Regiments directed against dug-in German and Ottoman remnants of the Seventh and Eighth Armies, joined by units from Damascus.
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