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![961403346 A member of the Syrian pro-government forces rides a bicycle through a damaged street in the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the capital Damascus on May 22, 2018. - The government seized earlier in the week the Yarmuk Palestinian camp and adjacent neighbourhoods of Tadamun and Hajar al-Aswad from the Islamic State (IS) group , putting Damascus fully under its control for the first time since 2012. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadat](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2020/10/GettyImages-961403346.jpg/GettyImages-961403346.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=FJSfs4a6)
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![961403346 A member of the Syrian pro-government forces rides a bicycle through a damaged street in the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the capital Damascus on May 22, 2018. - The government seized earlier in the week the Yarmuk Palestinian camp and adjacent neighbourhoods of Tadamun and Hajar al-Aswad from the Islamic State (IS) group , putting Damascus fully under its control for the first time since 2012. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadat](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2020/10/GettyImages-961403346.jpg/GettyImages-961403346.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=FJSfs4a6)
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