A Palestinian pro-regime fighter surveys the devastated landscape of Yarmouk district in Damascus on August 12, 2015.
A Palestinian pro-regime fighter surveys the devastated landscape of Yarmouk district in Damascus on August 12, 2015.
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More than a million people, mostly Palestinian, lived in Yarmouk at the start of the uprising in Syria in 2011. The U.N. believes just a few thousand remain.
More than a million people, mostly Palestinian, lived in Yarmouk at the start of the uprising in Syria in 2011. The U.N. believes just a few thousand remain.
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The military and pro-regime Palestinian groups have laid siege to Yarmouk, and the U.N. has struggled to get supplies to the few people left here.
The military and pro-regime Palestinian groups have laid siege to Yarmouk, and the U.N. has struggled to get supplies to the few people left here.
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The personal belongings of people who fled Yarmouk long ago lay strewn amongst the wreckage, blackened by bombs that have reduced most of the district to rubble.
The personal belongings of people who fled Yarmouk long ago lay strewn amongst the wreckage, blackened by bombs that have reduced most of the district to rubble.
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The battle for Yarmouk is an incremental one. Regime-allied fighters use flocks of geese in attempt to detect rebels breaking through the front lines.
The battle for Yarmouk is an incremental one. Regime-allied fighters use flocks of geese in attempt to detect rebels breaking through the front lines.
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