Displaced residents of Syrian camp for Palestinian refugees return home

Displaced residents of Syrian camp for Palestinian refugees return home

Residents of Syria's Yarmuk, located on the outskirts of Damascus, return home after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

Yarmuk camp, established in the 1950s to house Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their land after Israel's creation, had become a key residential and commercial district over the decades.

As Syria sank into civil war in 2011, around 140,000 residents fled the following year, and few have found their homes still standing in the eerie wasteland that used to be Yarmuk.