Yarmouk Camp

Can Netflix’s 'Messiah' buck Hollywood stereotypes?

'Messiah' is in some ways reflective of the worst of US politics and culture, but there are some encouraging signs from the show that could turn the tide.

How displaced Palestinians struggle to live in war-torn Syria

Yarmouk refugee camp in southern Damascus, a once-busy district, is now a ghost town heaped with rubble and mangled steel rods. Here’s how Palestinian refugees are living through Syria’s war.

Amid war, Syrian regime calls on refugees to return home

This is the first formal appeal broadcast on official media. The regime recently retook large areas near Damascus, and are waging a new offensive in the south that UN officials say has displaced more than 270,000 people.

Syrian regime says it has established full control over capital Damascus

The Syrian regime says it has retaken the last neighbourhoods in southern Damascus held by Daesh and declared the capital and its surroundings "completely safe" from militants for the first time in nearly seven years.