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The Daily mail reported that Syrian police deployed across devastated districts in southern Damascus on Tuesday, a day after the government captured the area from the Islamic State group.
The Assad forces on Monday seized the Yarmuk Palestinian camp and adjacent neighbourhoods of Tadamun and Hajar al-Aswad, putting Damascus fully under its control for the first time since 2012.
On Tuesday, police units entered Yarmuk and Hajar al-Aswad and planted the two-star Syrian flag there, state television reported.
Yarmuk, Hajar al-Aswad and the nearby district of Tadamun all lie in a southern pocket of Damascus that had escaped regime control for several years.
Syria's army announced it had seized Yarmuk from IS on Monday.
Several sources, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a military source close to Damascus, said the capture came after a negotiated withdrawal of IS fighters. The government has denied such a deal.
Source: The Daily Mail. Reporting by the AFP