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Syrian army tightens noose around Islamic State-held Palestinian camp in Damascus

World Apr 30, 2018

Syrian army tightens noose around Islamic State-held Palestinian camp in Damascus

Syrian troops on Sunday tightened the noose around a Palestinian refugee camp held by Islamic State militants in southern Damascus where hundreds of civilians face an uncertain future, state media, witnesses and residents said. Nearly two weeks into a campaign to capture the last area ...

U.N. warns of dire situation as Syrian army pounds Damascus Palestinian camp

World Apr 27, 2018

U.N. warns of dire situation as Syrian army pounds Damascus Palestinian camp

The Syrian army on Thursday intensified its bombardment of a besieged camp for Palestinian refugees and nearby rebel-held areas in southern Damascus, the last area near the capital outside government control. Most civilians have long since fled the Yarmouk camp, once the largest in Syria ...

Amid truce, Syrians return to gutted Damascus ghost towns, Islamic State ranks exit Palestinian ghetto

World Jan 21, 2016

Amid truce, Syrians return to gutted Damascus ghost towns, Islamic State ranks exit Palestinian ghetto

Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in a neighborhood on the edge of the Syrian capital returned to their homes Wednesday as part of a truce between the government and local rebels reached last year. Their return to the Qadam neighborhood is the latest in ...

World Dec 25, 2015

U.N.-brokered deal gives Islamic State kin, wounded safe passage out of strife-torn Damascus enclave

Hundreds of families of Islamic State militants and some injured fighters are expected to leave rebel-held areas of southern Damascus under a U.N.-brokered deal, a monitoring group said on Thursday. Safe passage would be given from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk on the outskirts ...

11 typhoid cases among Syria's Palestinian refugees just 'tip of the iceberg': U.N.

World / Science & Health Aug 21, 2015

11 typhoid cases among Syria's Palestinian refugees just 'tip of the iceberg': U.N.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warned Thursday that 11 typhoid cases among civilians from a besieged Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital may be just "the tip of the iceberg." Medical teams from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in ...

Plight worsens in besieged, Islamic State-overrun Palestinian camp in Damascus

World Apr 9, 2015

Plight worsens in besieged, Islamic State-overrun Palestinian camp in Damascus

When hundreds of Islamic State militants muscled into the Yarmouk refugee camp last week and planted their black flags amid the charred, blown-out buildings, it was the latest trial for the remaining Palestinians who for two years have endured a suffocating government siege, starvation ...

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