ISIS loses ground in Syria's Yarmouk camp
Jihadis from ISIS have lost ground to Palestinian fighters in Syria's Yarmouk camp, Palestinian officials and a resident said Tuesday, AFP reported.
ISIS fighters have retreated from much of the territory they seized in the camp in southern Damascus after entering it on April 1, a resident using the pseudonym Samer told AFP.
"We haven't even seen any Daesh members in over three days," he said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The withdrawal was confirmed by an official from a pro-Syrian regime Palestinian faction fighting against ISIS inside the camp.
"There are intermittent but ongoing clashes between Palestinian factions and ISIS," said Khaled Abdel Majid, head of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, adding that ISIS had withdrawn from most of the neighborhoods it previously controlled.
ISIS fighters were now confined largely to the southwest of the camp, with Palestinian factions - both pro- and anti-Syrian regime - controlling most of the east and north of the camp, Palestinian sources said.