The ISIS takeover of the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in metro Damascus lasted only a little over a week. They are now said to have lost most of the camp, withdrawing to neighboring Hajar al-Aswad, amid repeated skirmishes with Aknaf al-Maqdis, a Hamas ally.
Yarmouk isn’t necessarily any better off, however, as al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front has moved into the camp as well and seems to be trying to fill the spot ISIS had previously occupied.
The PLO has accused Nusra of cooperating with ISIS in the takeover of the camp, and says they are simply “changing positions” now, suggesting that the fighting may not be over.
At the same time, al-Qaeda’s forces seem to be less aggressive at pushing their weight around in Yarmouk, and aren’t going after the local population the way ISIS was, hoping to keep the strategically valuable camp without fighting.
The situation in the camp has been dreadful throughout the civil war, and seems to be growing worse by the day. The overwhelming majority of the camp’s residents have fled abroad, though those who remain seem to constantly be in harm’s way.
The USG has turned this entire region of the planet into a disaster area.
Bush's bogus 2003 so-called (Operation Iraqi Freedom) destroyed a country,
and is responsible for the carnage happening today. Oboomer's strategy is
to keep dumping arms into the region which only fuels the bloodshed.
The USG could care less about a human life. Apparently, it hasn't learned
a thing from the Iraq debacle, if you listen to Zionist stooges and flunkies
like Senator Cotton of Arkancide, who claimed a war with Iran would only take
a (few) days.
Not only is Cotton a moron, his ridiculous statement makes me believe he's
high on some of the cocaine Bill Clinton was running through the Mena
airport.
While the might of USA could not do it in Iraq, what gives??????
A terrorist is always a terrorist no matter what their name, politics or religious agendas. What needs to be understood is who and why these terrorists are feed.