Yarmuk

It launched a wave of such attacks late on Sunday, trying to take control of a district west of the Old City, Hay al-Tanak, and the nearby Yarmuk neighborhood.

Then there’s Syria, which siphons off water from the Jordan’s northern tributary, the Yarmuk River.

Palestinias who fled violence in the Syrian refugee camp of Yarmuk are seen at the Masnaa Lebanese border crossing with Syria as people stamp their documents before entering Lebanon on December 19, 2012.

A large number of Palestinians refugees and others who fled the Damascus suburb of Yarmuk and the Yarmuk refugee camp arrived at the border crossing fleeing the fighting in and around their district.

In western Baghdad, a passer-by was killed when a car bomb blew up near the home of an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Yarmuk area of the city; two people died in attacks on the homes of two policemen in the Amiriya district.