Battle For The Last Islamic State Stronghold In Syria -- News Updates March 6, 2019

Daily Mail: Defiant but defeated: ISIS fanatics vow the terror group 'will remain' even as they flee their final enclave and 400 militants are caught trying to escape

* Thousands of people including ISIS brides have fled the last stronghold of the 'caliphate' at Baghouz in Syria
* Many ordered out by their husbands who want to be martyred while some have refused to denounce jihad
* Angry crowds streaming out of the enclave today vowed the terror group 'will remain' even as defeat loomed
* A senior Syrian Democratic Forces officer said 400 jihadists were captured last night as they tried to escape

Angry crowds streaming out of the last ISIS territory in Syria have vowed the terror group 'will remain' even as defeat looms for the extremists.

More than 3,000 people have evacuated from Baghouz in the last 24 hours as US-backed forces close in on victory.

But extremists among them praised the remaining militants fighting to the death in the besieged town while some ISIS brides refused to denounce jihad as they fled from the bomb-ravaged community.

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WNU Editor: No one is officially saying that the battle for this last stronghold is over .... but it looks like it is over. If there are any fighters left .... and I suspect that there are some still hiding .... they will probably be flushed out very soon.

style="text-align: center;">Battle For The Last Islamic State Stronghold In Syria -- News Updates March 6, 2019
Hundreds of Islamic State fighters surrender in east Syria -- Reuters
IS militants 'caught trying to escape' last Syria enclave -- BBC
Dying IS 'caliphate' empties itself of last survivors -- New Straits Times/AFP
Angry and defiant, IS families surrender in Syria -- AP
Hundreds limp out of besieged Syria jihadist enclave -- AFP
Hundreds of ISIL fighters surrender in Syria's Baghouz: SDF -- Al Jazeera
'I only saw America killing": an IS widow's view of Syria's war -- Reuters
To the bitter end, IS militants remain organized and brutal -- AP
Islamic State after the fall of the caliphate in Baghouz -- The Australian