Waves Of People Are Still Leaving The Islamic State's Last Syrian Enclave



ABC News Online: Islamic State fighters hand themselves in as noose tightens around last Syrian stronghold

Around 1,000 Islamic State fighters have handed themselves in to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after negotiating their surrender from the last stronghold in Baghouz.

At a clearing ground just outside the battlefield, the ABC spoke to a group of IS fighters who were pleading for medical treatment.

An Egyptian man said the group came out as part of a negotiated surrender.

"They say they have a deal that the injured people have to go to hospital to get care, then everybody will go to jail and we say, 'OK, we are happy to get out of this fight".

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WNU Editor: All of the people who are leaving this last enclave are starving and thirsty .... and there are many of them. I could be wrong, but it looks like the U.S. led-coalition decided to use hunger and the need for water to force a surrender from the last fighters and their families. Why launch an attack when starvation and thirst are more effective weapons, and all that you need is time to work its course. And by the look

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