"I remember the first person to starve to death," recalls Ram Heramic, a 24-year-old from Yarmouk, the Syrian refugee camp 6 miles from Damascus center that ISIS fighters overran in early April.

As of 2/6/14 it’s been seven days since the first humanitarian aid, generally in the form of 56 lb. food parcels packed by UNWRA, the World Food Program, the ICRC or European aid organizations have ...

Translated by Lee Jae-hwang | Chaekgwa Hamkke | 528 pages | 33,000 Korean won** In 636, Emperor Heraclius of the Eastern ...

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 ...

Includes maps of: Middle East in 634; Events from Winter 633 to the End of May 634; Events from July 634 to September 635; Siege and Capture of Damascus, March to September 635; Romano-Byzantine ...

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 ...

Since mid-April, the Islamic State and the Assad regime have been engaged in an intense battle in the southern neighborhoods of Damascus. ISIS claims to have killed or wounded hundreds of Assad’s ...

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 ...

At the Palestine Embassy in Beirut recently, a young lady showed this observer a video of a gentleman in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, killing and eating a cat because food ran out weeks ago and nearly 18 ...