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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 ...

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 ...

Even in the horror of Syria’s civil war, there are few places that showcase the scale of the destruction – and the senselessness of the loss of life – more than the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of ...

Our spokesperson Chris Gunness has the following to say on the situation in Yarmouk Camp "There were dramatic and chaotic scenes today as UNRWA distributed food in the besieged Palestinian refugee ...

They took Yarmouk by storm, a sea of masked men flooding into the streets of one the world’s most beleaguered places. Besieged and bombed by Syrian forces for more than two years, the desperate ...

"UNRWA's food distribution inside Yarmouk continued for a fourth consecutive day since it resumed following a long break. In four and a half hours, the UNRWA team today delivered food parcels, hummus, ...

Children, the elderly and others displaced by Syria’s civil war are starving to death in a besieged camp where women brave sniper fire to forage for food just minutes from the relative prosperity of ...

It's an apocalyptic landscape, with ruined shells of buildings almost as far as the eye can see. Facades that are somehow still standing are riddled with bullets. The Palestinian refugee camp of ...

The United Nations group responsible for Palestinian refugees said Saturday that its top official would make what it calls an “urgent mission” to Syria in order to seek a resolution to the deepening ...

An aerial view of remaining buildings is seen which were not only destroyed during the civil war, they were also demolished by the government or stripped by thieves, at the Palestinian refugee camp of ...

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 there were once ...