LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -  United Nations  officials warned on Wednesday of a potential "slaughter of innocents" unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle....

(Editing by Yusra Ahmed) Ayham Ahmed, the pianist who sang with children in roads of Yarmouk camp during its siege, tells the world: “we are people love peace, don’t want war, please give us the peace, give us the childhood.”  In those few words, Ahmed faces the world...

  The Commander of Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, in special statement to Zaman al-Wasl, said his rebel group was defeated by the Islamic State in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus due to the complicity of al-Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, and the weakness of allied groups. Abu Ahmed Mushir...

The  United Nations  Security Council said on Monday it would look at how to help some 18,000 Palestinian refugees and Syrian civilians in a camp largely taken over by Islamic State as a top U.N. official suggested it consider measures to evacuate people. Pierre Krahenbuhl,...