LondonDaesh fighters began evacuating their final stronghold in southern Damascus on Sunday, a monitor said, bringing Syria’s government closer than ever to flushing out the last threat to the capital.
After weeks of combat and heavy casualties, an apparent deal was reached for remaining Daesh fighters to leave Yarmuk and the adjacent district of Tadamun, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Daesh members burned their headquarters in Yarmuk before boarding buses with their relatives to leave the area, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
“The six buses left at dawn, heading east for the Syrian desert,” he added.
Syrian state media and a Palestinian official have denied a deal was reached or that evacuations were taking place.
Al-Watan, a pro-government newspaper, said the militants are believed to have surrendered. The Observatory said Daesh militants began burning their posts in Yarmouk and adjacent areas. Residents reported smoke was billowing over the area.
Before the war, Yarmouk camp was home to one of the most prosperous Palestinian refugee communities in the Middle East.
Terror groups made the refugee camp as their base in 2012 and turned it into a heap of rubble, with its former residents scattered across the region.
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