Reports: IS clashes with Palestinian group in Syrian capital
BEIRUT - Islamic State militants have reportedly infiltrated a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, and are fighting with a group inside the camp, Syrian activists and a Lebanon-based TV station said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes broke out in Yarmouk between IS fighters and members of the Palestinian faction called Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis.
The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV sais the IS extremists fighters entered the camp from the nearby neighborhood of Hajar Aswad. That southern Damascus neighborhood is controlled by militants.
Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said the IS "now controls large parts of the camp."
