article_snippet.sent: Islamic State militants infiltrated a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus today, marking the terrorist group's deepest foray the Syrian capital and seat of President Bashar Assad's power.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS entered a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus as Jordan closed ISIS only functioning border crossing with the country following heavy clashes on the Syrian side between rebels and government forces.
article_snippet.sent: The militants, who already control large swaths of territory in northern Syria, reportedly entered the camp from the nearby Hajar Aswad neighborhood in southern Damascus in a coordinated attack with their rivals in the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
article_snippet.sent: According to the the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIS managed to take control of large parts of a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus following clashes with a Palestinian group.
article_snippet.sent: Jihadis: ISIS militants (pictured) entered a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus as Jordan closed its only functioning border crossing with the country following heavy clashes on the Syrian side between rebels and government forces its only functioning border crossing with the country the country the Syrian side .
article_snippet.sent: If ISIS manage to gain full control of Yarmouk, Jihadis can potentially use the camp as a base from which to threaten the heart of the capital as possibly challenge Assad himself.
article_snippet.sent: Anwar Raja, the spokesman for the pro-Assad Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said ISIS fighters entered the camp from nearby Hajar Aswad where ISIS fighters have been based for months.
article_snippet.sent: Anwar Raja, the spokesman for the pro-Assad Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine added that today's push came was coordinated between ISIS and their rivals in the Nusra Front, Al Qaeda's branch in Syria. '
article_snippet.sent: the Nusra Front opened the road for their in order to infiltrate the camp and
article_snippet.sent: several hours ago their entered Yarmouk,' Raja said by telephone.
article_snippet.sent: It was not immediately clear why Nusra - who have repeatedly fought against ISIS over the past year - would facilitate the entry of the group into the camp.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for rebels in southern Syria, Issam al-Rayess, confirmed that rebel fighters were trying to take control of the border crossing from Syrian authorities.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jihadis entered the camp through the nearby Hajar Aswad neighborhood .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda-linked rebels reportedly opened a closed road for ISIS militants .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Terrorists seized control of the majority of the refugee camp, which Terrorists are now likely to use as a base from which to Assad .