The recent surge of fighting in Syria has now spread to a seemingly unlikely—yet critical—place: A refugee camp.
ISIS, known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, has been engaging in fierce battles with other extremists groups and Syrian regime forces in Yarmouk, a massive Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors fighting in Syria. It said about “20 barrel bombs” were dropped by regime warplanes into the camp.
The Observatory said that ISIS was in control of about 90 percent of the camp, but it appears that fighting is still ongoing. A YouTube video uploaded Sunday shows ISIS fighters in the refugee camp, shouting the typical “Allahu Akbar” and “Takbir” war cries as they advance.
