ISIS seizes Yarmouk refugee camp, home to over 18000 – Assad threatened

#ISIS #jihadists #yarmoukcamp #syria #damascus #alnusra The Islamic State militants are knocking at the doors of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and are believed to have infiltrated a refugee camp that is home to nearly 18000 refugees. The camp is the Yarmouk camp and this has happened even as Jordan has closed its only functioning border crossing with the country.
This was due to heavy clashes on the Syrian side between rebels and government forces, as has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 2 April 2015.

The ISIS militants already control large swaths of territory in northern Syria and have apparently made their entry from the Hajar Aswad neighborhood in southern Damascus. It was a coordinated attack with their rivals in the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that the ISIS took control of large parts of the Yarmouk camp following clashes with a Palestinian group. Observers feel that once ISIS gains full control of Yarmouk, the jihadis can make use of the camp as a base from which to threaten not only the heart of the capital but also Assad himself.

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