ISIS Beheading Palestinians in Damascus – Islamic State has seized nearly all of the Yarmouk district and is reportedly carrying out atrocities. | Virtual Jerusalem

ISIS Beheading Palestinians in Damascus – Islamic State has seized nearly all of the Yarmouk district and is reportedly carrying out atrocities. | Virtual Jerusalem

The savage Islamic State (ISIS) organization has seized nearly all of the Palestinian district of Yarmouk in Damascus, activists said Saturday, and there are reports of beheadings and mass killings of Palestinians.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) watchdog group said the Islamist militants have taken over 90% of Yarmouk, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital.

The Financial Times cited activists who said that the jihadi group may succeed in cementing a foothold in the Syrian capital, thus increasing pressure on President Bashar al-Assad…..