ISIS Militants Control Most Of Area Near Yarmouk Refugee Camp Steve Inskeep talks to Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N.'s relief agency, about the situation at Syria's Yarmouk refugee camp.

Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, was formed in 1957 to accommodate people fleeing the Arab-Israeli conflict. The camp, which sits just 6 miles from central Damascus, has ...

After Assad fled to Russia, Abu Tarek and other internally displaced people suddenly had new freedom to move about the country. He had been restricted to an area of about 50 kilometers during the ...

Yarmouk refugee camp: Ravaged by typhoid, warfare and limited aid By Jehan Bseiso. 3 minute read Updated 9:53 AM EDT, Tue August 25, 2015 Link Copied! A ...

Yarmouk was for years considered by many the de facto capital of the Palestinian refugee diaspora. When the Syrian authorities set out in 1957 to build an unofficial camp for those who fled or ...

ISIS militants have stormed the besieged Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus and seized control of most of the compound, activists and Palestinian officials report.

ISIS takes over sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, ... Residents wait in line to receive food aid distributed in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 31, 2014.

Jack is International Security and Terrorism Correspondent for Newsweek. Fighters from Palestinian factions and Syrian rebel groups have retaken areas of the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk, in ...

DAMASCUS — The Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus was considered the capital of the Palestinian diaspora before the war in Syria reduced it to row after row of blasted out buildings where ...

LAURENCE GEAI/MYOP FOR LE MONDE. The ruins of the Yarmouk refugee camp, Syria, on December 19, 2024. LAURENCE GEAI/MYOP FOR LE MONDE "More than 90% of UNRWA aid was diverted by the al-Assad regime.

Yarmouk Palestinian camp, ... while more than 50 percent are internally displaced. 142 people in Yarmouk refugee camp died from hunger and lack of medical care just since June 2013.

Yarmouk was built in 1957 as a Palestinian refugee camp but grew into a vibrant suburb where many working-class Syrians settled. Before the war, some 1.2 million people lived in Yarmouk, including ...