#D24 Dozens of civilians, most of them children and women, left #AlBaghuz town east of #DeirEzzor under the control of Daesh, to one of the #SDF's points in the badiyah of #AlSussah town. pic.twitter.com/sgw62rvdmo— ديرالزور24 (@DeirEzzor24) January 22, 2019
AFP: Kurd-led forces overrun last IS-held village in Syria: monitor
Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border "caliphate" to two small hamlets, a war monitor said.
It is the culmination of a broad offensive launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces last September with US-led coalition support in which they have reduced the jihadists' last enclave on the north bank of the Euphrates valley near the Iraqi border to a tiny rump.
The capture of the village of Baghouz leaves the few remaining diehard IS fighters holed up in scattered farmhouses among the irrigated fields and orchards on the north bank of the Euphrates River.
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Update #1: US coalition forces overrun last ISIS village in Syria (The National)
Update #2: US-backed SDF forces close to victory in last ISIS-held pocket: Monitoring group (Kurdistan 24)
WNU editor: So it ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.
