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Monitor: IS Fighters Leave Damascus Enclave

by VOA News

   A Syrian monitor says Islamic State fighters are being evacuated from
   the last insurgent enclave near Damascus, a move that will restore
   state control over the area.

   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the
   evacuation of the fighters and their families from Yarmuk Palestinian
   refugee camp began Sunday. Buses were carrying the fighters and their
   families to the Syrian Desert, east of the capital.

   Reuters reports the enclave is the last besieged insurgent area in
   western Syria.