Yarmouk, Syria, was originally a temporary refugee camp for thousands of Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Nakba; however, the camp eventually grew to a lively metropolis with a vibrant community of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- The U.N. delivered hundreds of relief parcels Thursday to a besieged rebel-held refugee camp in the Syrian capital that has suffered for months from crippling shortages of food and ...

Once a vibrant hub of Palestinian life, Yarmouk now lies in ruins — its homes shelled, its streets silent. After siege, starvation and betrayal, the fight here is no longer for a Palestinian state — ...

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DAMASCUS (AP) — 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 ...

The UN Security Council on Monday demanded that aid workers be allowed to distribute food and other supplies to residents trapped by fighting inside the Damascus neighborhood of Yarmouk, which has ...

Five days after Syrian authorities halted what apparently had been a successful 10 days of food distribution in Damascus' Yarmouk refugee camp, one of Syria's besieged areas, hopeful news arrived ...

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